The Statement is a great movie. Michael Caine´s performance of Pierre Brossard is fabulous; one feels in danger when he is on scene, but one also feels pity and a sort of magnetic attraction towards any single of his movements. He is the virtue and the vice at the same time, sides of the same coin. The portrait of Church and its priests is dark and ice-cold; the abbeys and its roofs and monks dressed in white, cozy and lovely, stuck way back in time. The Statement is a movie full of rhythm and its characters are humans full of complexities. The name and novel of Brian Moore, a piece of work to discover.
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A daring and transgressor movie is a Spanish one, El y El, albeit I guess the title is wrong or something because I cannot find it in the cinematographic file of Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez or Lola Herrera. The movie is copyr-igthed in 1979 but, in spite of not being a good movie, the plot and the story (homosexuality, crime, rape), scenes and the final development are avant-garde and quite audacious. A surprising discovery.
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