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  • Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates, Jeremy Northam, Charlotte Rampling
  • Directors: Norman Jewison
  • Writers: Brian Moore, Ronald Harwood
  • Producers: David M. Thompson, Jason Piette, Julia Rosenberg, Mark Musselman, Michael Cowan
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, French, German, Italian, Latin
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Jul 2004
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00028HCII
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,841 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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While a secret society of Catholic priests hide him in various French abbeys, a network of bitter Jewish assassins track him, and a determined judge attempts to use the law to pin a prison sentence on him. This highly wanted man is Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who committed war crimes--not only murdering Jews but also stealing their money and property--when he was a Nazi in World War II. However, Brossard's wrongdoing happened 40 years in the past and he was in hiding long enough that nobody--not even his own wife (Charlotte Rampling)--feels much like protecting him anymore. On the verge of a heart attack, Brossard scampers from one hiding spot to the next, narrowly evading his multiple pursuers.
A top-notch political thriller directed by Norman Jewison (THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR) and based on a novel by Brian Moore, THE STATEMENT keeps viewers trapped in suspenseful anticipation. Caine's portrayal of Brossard as a nervous, jittery old man with a guilty conscience is palpably upsetting. Meanwhile Tilda Swinton as the judge, and Jeremy Northam as her assistant, make an excellent and convincing detective team. Interesting film work combines sharp footage of provincial France with black and white flashbacks to grueling WWII executions, making the film visually compelling--an excellent complement to its puzzling plotline.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing film raising more questions than it answers., 28 Nov 2006
By pointone (Bournemouth UK) - See all my reviews
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First we see the executions of seven Jews in Vichy France overseen by Milice officer Pierre Brossard, a change from black and white to colour and from 1944 to 1992 and after hardly a word of dialogue you just know that Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) is still evading capture 48 years later.

Brossard is hunted by a shadowy organisation operated at arms length by senior politicians compromised in WW11 and also the law headed by Judge Annemarie Livi (Tilda Swinton on top form) and Colonel Roux (Jeremy Northam), the Catholic priests he relies for shelter are forced to turn against him.

Caine does a wonderful job with his character, at the end you are still asking questions, is he really a devote catholic or is he just a callous blackmailer exploiting the church to ensure his safety?

As he shambles around with heart problems does one pity him or want him to suffer a slow painful death?

Alternatively after 48 years should we say enough is enough and let the pitiful creature live, yet how pitiful is he as he very professionally kills two assassins sent after him?

An engrossing film, questions and uncertainty is what it is all about.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Caine does ambiguity well, 1 Sep 2004
By Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Statement [DVD] [2004] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Although his films aren't always artistic successes, Michael Caine is one of my favorite actors, and at his best when his character is cheekily likable, e.g. in THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975), SLEUTH (1972), SECONDHAND LIONS (2003). Rarely, he plays someone hateful, the most recent coming to mind being SHINER (2000). Here, in THE STATEMENT, his on-screen persona is oddly ambiguous, and it's left to supporting characters to provide the plot's protagonists.

It's June 1942, and a young Vichy French police officer, Pierre Brossard, supervises the round-up and execution of seven Jews by a contingent of German soldiers. After the war, he's charged with murder and collaboration with the enemy, but he escapes from prison, apparently aided by former superiors in the police establishment. Now, it's 1992, and Brossard (Michael Caine) lives in constant fear of exposure. A fervent Catholic, he skulks from French monastery to monastery, wherein he finds refuge with the help of sympathetic abbots and Church officials. A retired, former police official provides regular payments of money for frugal, day-to-day living. Now, Brossard is apparently being pursued by Jewish activists bent on his assassination. And if he hasn't worries enough, the French Justice Ministry has assigned a judge, Annemarie Livi (Tilda Swinton), and a police investigator, Colonel Roux (Jeremy Northam), to track Pierre down and take him into custody charged with war crimes. Are the two events related?

Pierre's wartime atrocity and his cold-hearted willingness to protect himself at any cost in the present are unlikely to endear him to the audience. On the other hand, the nature of the conspiracy against him by sinister forces, his failing health, and his sincere, if somewhat pathetic, religiousness render him an individual of some ambiguity. In the end, while Livi and Roux are the characters the viewer will naturally root for, Brossard will attract some small amount of sympathy because, perhaps, it's the popular Michael Caine in the role.

For me, the biggest problem with this otherwise reasonably intelligent film is the casting. Caine's Cockney British accent is never entirely submerged, and the other main roles have gone to Brits, most obviously Northam and Swinton. This is, after all, supposed to be France, but it might as well have been rural Hampshire! And it's never made clear why both the Church and powerful members of the government found it necessary or desirable to protect such a low-level Vichy functionary for so long anyway. Some conspiracies play better as fiction, and the Church is an ever-popular villain, especially if the Jesuits or a rogue cardinal or two are involved.

THE STATEMENT justly rates three stars, but I'm bumping it up a notch solely for Caine's performance (despite the accent). Northam and Swinton are also both effective.

One of the DVD's special features is an interview with Michael, in which he reveals that he was attracted to the Brossard role simply because he's rarely asked to play an unpleasant character not softened by his trademark cheeky humor. (I guess he forgot about SHINER!)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent adaption of Brian Moore's Superb Thriller, 7 Jan 2005
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When I read Brian Moore's book a few years ago I was hooked from the first page. It is a tight, thoughtful and gripping thriller based on real events. The film is true to the book and a very good adaptation with great performances by a top knotch cast. Caine is superb, but so are all the others. I highly recommend it even though its portrayal of the Catholic Church is perhaps rather one sided and negative - fostering the idea of secret societies and complicity.
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