The Statement

The Statement (2003) — watch online on iFILM. Norman Jewison's adaptation of Brian Moore's novel follows Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine), a French wartime collaborator who handed seven Jewish prisoners over to German forces in 1944 and spent the next six decades moving between remote monasteries, quietly sheltered by clergy who knew exactly who he was.

Now, near the end of his life, two threats close in at once. Judge Anne-Marie Livi (Tilda Swinton) and a military colonel (Jeremy Northam) reopen a case everyone assumed was finished. Separately, a group sends hired men to deliver their own verdict — a written sentence, pinned to the body when it's done. Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates play the well-placed figures trying to get Brossard out of the country before either side reaches him. Jewison keeps the pacing deliberate; the discomfort accumulates in silences — in how ordinary an old man can look when no one is forcing him to explain himself. Stream The Statement online on iFILM.