The Statement
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1992. The French government has passed a law punishing crimes against humanity allowing them to prosecute Nazi collaborators from WWII. Magistrate Annemarie Livi has been assigned the case of Pierre Brossard, a police officer in Dombey, France in June, 1944, when he helped round up a group of Jewish persons and personally chose seven of them to be executed. Brossard was captured and held in police custody in 1955 following a trial where he was sentenced to death for being a c... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Statement:

Michael Caine
Tilda Swinton
Jeremy Northam
Alan Bates
Charlotte Rampling
John Neville

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1992. The French government has passed a law punishing crimes against humanity allowing them to prosecute Nazi collaborators from WWII. Magistrate Annemarie Livi has been assigned the case of Pierre Brossard, a police officer in Dombey, France in June, 1944, when he helped round up a group of Jewish persons and personally chose seven of them to be executed. Brossard was captured and held in police custody in 1955 following a trial where he was sentenced to death for being a collaborator, before he was able to escape. Brossard has since received a Presidential pardon for those crimes. Livi enlists the help of Colonel Roux of the French Army to assist in this case in she not trusting the police who assisted the Vichy regime during the war. While Roux informs her that he is aware of an unknown Jewish organization that is also tracking and wanting to execute Brossard, Livi knows that the pardon was arranged by someone who must have been an associate of Brossard - who she refers to as "The Old Man" - now probably high up in the government. They are also both aware that the Catholic church has actively been assisting Brossard all these years, probably in providing him both with funds and shelter, them being able to break through the closed ranks of the church a major hurdle they will have to overcome. Livi is further given a warning by a close family friend, Armand Bertier, a government minster, that she is walking into a land mine of a case. Brossard, who is aware that he is being tracked both by the Jewish and by the national authorities, is indeed what he considers a devout Catholic in the realm of the traditionalists, he, who trying to stay one step ahead of those tracking him, looking for absolution from the church, while not prepared to give himself up to either the Jewish or the authorities. The Jewish have their own additional motive beyond killing Brossard for his crimes, while those pulling their strings have one more additional motive in protecting themselves.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer - 9/10 by Sean AxmakerThe resulting political thriller is more intriguing than riveting, flattened by Jewison's plodding direction and distracting use of British actors to play French characters.
Flick Filosopher - 9/10 by MaryAnn Johanson[R]apidly descends into inescapable absurdity...
Film Blather - 9/10 by Eugene NovikovMorally nebulous, poorly constructed, and protracted well beyond the point of lost interest.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 9/10 by Kevin John BozelkaAll Jewison has to offer us is an exquisitely packaged reminder of the Catholic Church's collaboration with the Vichy government. But why distort history when your sole purpose is to offer a history lesson?
One Guy's Opinion - 8/10 by Frank SwietekThe final novel by the prolific Canadian author Brian Moore was, to be honest, not one of his finest, but it was better than Norman Jewison's film of it suggests.
L.A. Weekly - 8/10 by Ella TaylorThis classy cast ... surely deserves better by way of character development, and almost all seem to compensate with wild overacting.
New York Daily News - 8/10 by Jami BernardThere's a sensational, highly original performance by Swinton.
San Jose Mercury News - 8/10 by Bruce NewmanThere is nothing particularly clever or twisty about it as a thriller.
San Diego Union-Tribune - 8/10 by David ElliottThe Statement has the old appeal of esteemed actors in interesting places sharing reasonably adult talk, but as a thriller it could make Hitchcock rumble and sputter.
ColeSmithey.com - 8/10 by Cole SmitheyThe film operates well as a thriller and probably goes further than intended in extracting sympathy for its reprehensible protagonist.

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