Stars:
Haley Joel Osment, Willem Dafoe, Richard BanelStoryline
Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy ('stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect') so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio's simple peasant family, posing as their city relative. Gniecio's eldest son Vladek proves rather tyrannical but no brighter then gullible junior Tollo, who takes a role play in catechism class to 'become' a Last Supper character, in his case Jesus, to the extreme, even training for a crucifixion from a tree. Neighbor Batylin and his wife are executed by the Nazis when their illegally kept pig is found. Kluba plays a dirty trick when Gniecio tries to sell his in the city; his son is as problematic for the boys, who meanwhile play involving a single girl-playmate, Maria, who takes Romek in when he's stupidly thrown out by his widowed host by mistake. The horror of war itself suddenly shows its ugly head again, big time and ...
User Reviews
For a war movie this is something to give credit...You know something?
It's a bit of a pity that "Edges of the Lord" doesn't get the deserved
attention from the press, critics and people in general. That happens in
part because of its poor marketing and propaganda. The film should also
have a better distribution around the world.
I like Haley Joel
Osment. At first I only saw this movie for curiosity because Haley is in
it. I don't even like war movies. But this one is actually a good
surprise inside its genre.
This isn't like the majority of war
films. Comparing to others of its kind, this one is soft when it comes
to the Holocaust's horrors and violence (although it still is
disturbing). But in general, this is more of a drama that takes place
during the World War II in the early 1940's. It's a human movie, a story
of braveness, survival, sacrifices and also about learning to accept
and respect the other people. It also has some funny moments, such as
the hilarious pig fart scene!
"Edges of the Lord" takes place in
Poland, the country where it was filmed. one of its attributes is the
natural beauty of the sceneries and landscapes: a beautiful village,
lakes, trees, mountains and green places. The music is beautiful. It's a
touching movie either, not just another Holocaust movie.
Haley
Joel Osment and Willem Dafoe are the best known actors of this film.
They're American. The others are mostly polish actors but not without a
Canadian one (Richard Banel) and an English one (Liam Hess).
The
fabulous Haley Joel Osment once again proves his exceptional talent and,
along with the other actors, he speaks with a very convincing polish
accent.
The other actors have terrific performances too,
especially the kids: Liam Hess as Tolo, Richard Banel as Vladek and Ola
Frycz as Maria. As for the adult actors, Olaf Lubaszenko is great as
Gniecio, as well as Willem Dafoe as the Priest. The director Yurek
Bogayevicz did a great job with this American-polish special production.
As
for the characters, Tolo is a loving but very strange little boy.
Vladek starts by being a hateable brat who's always mistreating Romek,
but as the movie runs we end up liking him, because he changes his
bratty attitudes, becomes a good boy and finally accepts Romek, becoming
his friend and even rescues him when he needs to. Romek is the cutest
and most loving kid but also a boy who is thought to disguise in
perfection his religious roots. Maria is a pretty and provoking girl who
also becomes a better person as the movie runs. Who I never like at all
are that awful Kluba and his sons: Pyra and, most of all, that horrible
Robal.
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