Into the Abyss (Blu-ray) PG-13
A tale of death, a tale of life
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 10, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Ifc Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Werner Herzog | |
Edited by | Joe Bini | |
Screenwriting by | Werner Herzog | |
Composition by | Mark De Gli Antoni | |
Produced by | Werner Herzog | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Zeitlinger |
Entertainment Reviews:
Into the Abyss is not just a compelling documentary about a convicted murderer on Death Row, but a further chapter in Werner Herzog's obsessive exploration of the American way of life - and death.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
The result is gripping, moving and revelatory, an unabashed if implicit critique of the death penalty.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Into the Abyss is a hugely powerful film, shot with elegance and sensitivity to both victims and perpetrators.
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CineVue
Rating: 2/5 --
The extensive use of lurid crime scene videos and subtitles set in a naff typewriter font sit uneasily with the director's opposition to capital punishment.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Moving and thought-provoking in equal measure. A Herzog doc of the highest order.
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Little White Lies
4 stars out of 5 -- Herzog's eye stays keen, his lateral style of inquiry drawing out details only he could....A piercing film that finds affirmative value in the places other filmmakers wouldn't look.
Total Film
[T]he film's most lasting impression is of the resilience and repression of memory that the crime's survivors require to cope.
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Product Description:
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog uses a disturbing triple homicide that took place in Conroe, Texas, as a springboard to exploring capital punishment in this challenging, thought-provoking documentary. In late 2001, Texas teens Jason Burkett and Michael Perry were arrested for a pair of murders related to a car theft gone horribly awry. Ten years later, Perry sits on death row awaiting execution, and Burkett languishes in prison with a lifetime sentence. Through interviews with the condemned man, his partner-in-crime, friends and relatives of both, local policemen, and the prison official in charge of carrying out executions, Herzog presents an unflinching portrait of the capital-punishment process, one that raises numerous questions about the high price we pay in our quest for justice.