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  • Actors: Pell James, Caroline Aaron, Shannon Jardine, Julia Ormond, Hugh Dillon
  • Directors: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: E1 Films
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Jun 2009
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001TEKJUM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,722 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julie Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung out junkie and an eight year old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon discover that uncovering the truth can come at a very big cost ...


Synopsis

Jennifer Lynch, director of BOXING HELENA and daughter of David Lynch, helms this psychological thriller. Though the Santa Fe desert appears calm, it's the site of a number of gruesome murders. A trio of local police officers has found several witnesses, but soon the investigation belongs to the FBI. In this film starring Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman, nothing is as simple as it might seem.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Different and Weird, but in a good way, 7 Aug 2009
By G. M. Petzl "Gaby" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This movie is directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch and you can see the influence he has had in her style of directing.

Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond are FBI agents, who have come to a small town to investigate the murders of a group of people on the roadside in the middle of nowhere. The story is told through the three survivors perspectives, a little girl, whose family was murdered; a junkie, whose girlfriend was murdered and a small town police officer, whose partner was murdered.

As the story unfolds, you slowly start to realise that all is not as it seems, but I don't want to give too much away. All I will say, is that there is a brilliant twist at the end. The story line is great and different. A very good movie.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "There's only one way to unfold a note, so to speak, without tearing the paper"., 13 Jul 2009
By Mr. Rwj Nixon "the pres" - See all my reviews
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Within about 5 minutes of starting to watch Surveillance, you could be forgiven for thinking that you are watching another one of David Lynch's weird dissections of American society. However, when you realise that it is directed by his daughter Jennifer and David himself gets a producer credit, it easy to see his hand in much of the proceedings. Coming back from the deservedly critical disaster that was Boxing Helena was never going to be easy for Jennifer, but with Surveillance she has given us an intriguing film that is offbeat drama and dark thriller.
When federal officers Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) and Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) arrive at a police station outside Santa Fe to interview three witnesses to a series of horrific murders, nothing is as straightforward as it would first appear. A traumatized young girl (Ryan Simpkins), a junkie looking to get high (Pell James), and a strung out cop (Kent Harper) all have very different stories to tell as well as various secrets to hide, but as the agents set up their recording gear and video cameras, and the interviews begin, it quickly becomes apparent that something is not quite right.
It is impossible to say to much more without giving some if not all of the game away, but this is a superior thriller and weird drama that is both very involving and very unnerving at the same time. Many of the characters have that trademark David Lynch quirkiness, in particular Bill Pullman as Sam Hallaway turning in a very good performance as a genuinely "odd" individual, and French Stewart (of Third Rock From The Sun fame) as a police officer and victim of the killers who are stalking these roads who is only seen in a series of flashbacks but still gives a very arresting (no pun intended) performance.
But the real star of this film is the story, and the real fun is to be had in the telling of the tale. As the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks from three different perspectives, small details come into much shaper focus, and a surprising truth emerges. Co-written by Jennifer Lynch and Kent Harper (the same Kent Harper who plays one of the witnesses mentioned above) this is an involving and surprising tale that is very well told, with enough held back to make each little bit of new information that is painstakingly teased from the three witnesses of genuine interest and importance. The sense of wide open spaces where nothing much really happens is brilliantly conveyed through some great cinematography and a tidy script that can be surprisingly funny when it wants to be. Whilst not perfect, with some plot holes left gaping open by the end of the film and most of the characters slightly exaggerated (although this does actually work within the context of the movie), this is still a surprisingly involving movie.
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2 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surveillance is an extremely important stimulation., 1 Jul 2009
Primarily artisans and artists create for their inner self, and in addition, arts wider function to an audience is to stimulate on a soul level.
Quite irrespective of the most gravely sinister subject matter, certainly this performance art can be efficient to take in countless times, the photography is just one aspect of a myriad of great skill.
Perhaps most exciting is that the flick is from contemporary U.S.A. and stating the obvious, the U.S.A. is a most important vanguard in world culture and history.
Of course, naturally Jennifer Lynch is daughter of her virtuoso father.
A big question, the validity of mystical insight, Piet Mondrian was all about that.
Surveillance is an extremely important stimulation.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing but fails to deliver its promise
Surveillance [DVD] [2008]

Directed by Jennifer Lynch (daughter of David, he of Mulholland Drive) "Surveillance" dramatises an investigation in flashbacks into a... Read more
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