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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396013681
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D01368D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Veteran actor and two-time Oscar® winner Michael Caine stars with Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Northam in THE STATEMENT a shocking and provoking thriller that delves into a fascinating chapter in modern events! An ambitious Judge (Swinton) and an exacting Colonel (Jeremy Northam) re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men determined to kill him before he s arrested. When the Church shuts out Brossard to protect their dirty secret it s a race against time the government and the hit men to discover whether justice will prevail or revenge will be served!System Requirements:Running Time: 119 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 043396013681 Manufacturer No: 01368
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Michael Caine's riveting performance is the best reason to see The Statement, a lopsided thriller with conspicuously noble intentions. In crafting a thematic counterpart to his Oscar®-winning script for The Pianist, screenwriter Ronald Harwood draws from another fact-based story set during World War II, adapting Brian Moore's captivating novel about an official French collaborator named Brossard (Caine) who executed seven Jews in 1944, under the Vichy regime of Nazi-occupied France, and eluded justice for decades thereafter. While a passionate French judge (Tilda Swinton) and army colonel (Jeremy Northam) pursue Brossard in 1992, director Norman Jewison smoothly executes a cat-and-mouse plot as Brossard hides in a series of right-wing Catholic sanctuaries. By introducing a conspiracy element not found in Moore's novel, Harwood and Jewison dilute an otherwise riveting story (based on the real-life war crimes of French Milice officer Paul Touvier), resulting in a contradictory portrayal of Caine's sympathetically penitent character. In a film that fails to clarify the maneuvering of its ultimate villains, it's a testament to Caine's skill that The Statement works as well as it does. Charlotte Rampling and the late Alan Bates appear in effective cameo roles. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
It's never made clear in this otherwise aboove average movie why some clerics in the Catholic Church are protecting Pierre Broussard, a Nazi collaborator. Are they Nazi sympathizers?
At one point in the film one of the priests sympathetic to Broussard says that Broussard is a good guy because he fought during the War against France falling into the hands of the communists. But, still, Broussard was a Nazi collaborator.
Also, the movie doesn't make it clear how widespread ... Read More
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Michael Caine is awesome, as always, in this finely directed and acted tale of a Vichy collaborator pursued by those seeking justice for war criminals. The story has well fleshed-out major characters, and the unrelenting mystery and suspense should hold the attention of most moviegoers. It's unfortunate that the film constitutes still another screed against the Catholic Church, which is portrayed as a sinister organization that pulls out all the stops not just to protect, but even to coddle, a fugitive ... Read More
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item plays excellent and damage free. Arrive timely. No complaints here. Responsive seller. Everything as advertised.
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This is a terrific film that has apparently been damned for the sin of reverting to a lower key, more realistic style of drama, reminiscent of Hitchcock, but doing it in the post-Harrison Ford era. By contemporary standards, it must be conceded to be a "slow" film. But slow does not equal boring. Slow is not tedious unless it is uninteresting. Every moment of this film moves the story along. It has suspense and realistic, adult action; it has convincing characters and a human story; it is based on a ... Read More
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I note that another reviewer has complained that this film is slow and compared to the normal thrillers which depend on car crashes, explosions and impossible feats of human agilty I expect it is. It is also a very good film which whilst being entertaining also makes you think. Some people have seen it as anti Catholic, but it is true that elements within the Catholic Church were pro Nazi and did help war criminal escape justice not only in France but in many other countries.
Michael Caine is ... Read More
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