The Statement (2003)
The Statement (2003)
DVDRip | AVI | 640 x 352 | XviD @ cd1 - 1240 Kbps; cd2 - 1131 Kbps | 118 min | 1,43 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Thriller, Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 640 x 352 | XviD @ cd1 - 1240 Kbps; cd2 - 1131 Kbps | 118 min | 1,43 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Set in modern day France, the story of Pierre Brossard who, as a young man, was a Nazi executioner under the Vichy regime. Brossard has never been brought to trial and has lived a peaceful and anonymous life, sheltered by right-wing elements within the Catholic Church. A new investigation into his crimes is launched and Brossard finds himself the target of hit men on the one hand–and police investigators on the other. A wily old fox, he keeps outwitting his pursuers while desperately trying to figure out who they are. Who will get to Brossard first? The investigators or the assassins?
IMDB - 4 wins
Kudos to Jewison for an important, intelligent film. Someone I know who hadn't been to the cinema in decades saw The Statement last week and has had his faith in film restored by this movie.
I can't understand why newspaper critics focussed on the fact that French accents weren't used. I find that some directors, not this one, try to add in accents where they are not at all necessary. After all, the "real" characters merely spoke their language, and didn't have "foreign accents". As an English and French speaker, I find the use of accents in other films (that is, where the real character would not have spoken with a "foreign" accent, but in his or her own language) to be provincial at best and distracting at worst. The director is from Canada - as an intelligent person which we can assume he is based on his brilliant career, he would understand the importance of not adding in accents where they would not naturally have occurred.IMDB Reviewer
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The Statement (2003)
The Statement (2003)
