THE STATEMENT X
Cert 12a, 120 mins
Michael Caine plays a Vichy collaborator hiding in Provence in 1992. Towards the end of the war, he ordered the death of seven Jewish men, and has been on the run ever since. Clothed and fed by the Catholic Church in a variety of French monasteries and towns for more than 50 years, he is now a wreck, praying for absolution while occasionally murdering anyone who tries to apprehend him. But Justice has him in its sights. A too-worthy film that suffers from making everyone in it fit labels of either good, evil or mad.
THE LAST KISS X
Cert 15, 118 mins
AN Italian film about a group of thirtysomething male friends who cannot accept that their girlfriends wish they would behave like men. Occasionally they go to the local park and chuck bottles, screaming "We've got to get out of this place!" Then they go home late and find their women hissing "Bastardo!"
Supposedly a grown-up film about tensions that develop over long relationships (ie anything over a week), it's incredibly florid, and way too much.
VALENTIN X
Cert PG, 82 mins
VALENTIN is a little boy living in Buenos Aires with his grandmother in the 1960s. His father is largely absent, his mother estranged, and his best friend a pianist who drinks too much. Comingofage never felt so mawkish and saccharine. The film captures little of the place and time - although Che gets a tearful mention.
Valentin
Cert: PG
