Pierrepoint

Name: Pierrepoint
Genre: Drama
Released: June 1, 2007
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 68

2007

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

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IFC First Take | Release Date: June 1, 2007 | R

Summary: Timothy Spall gives a devastating performance in the true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most notorious hangman. (IFC)

Director: Adrian Shergold

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

British actor Timothy Spall gives a shattering performance as Albert Pierrepoint. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The key to the film is in the performances by Spall and Stevenson -- and by Marsan. The utter averageness of the characters, their lack of insight, their normality, contrasts with the subject matter in an unsettling way. Read full review

Mark Olsen

At once desperately grim and unnervingly gripping, providing an exacting sense of the detail and procedure that went into death by hanging. Read full review

Stephen Holden

In Pierrepoint:The Last Hangman Timothy Spall sinks his teeth into one of the juiciest roles of his career. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Like most television directors, Shergold is good with actors. Jowly, impassive and rigid with righteous dignity, Timothy Spall makes a wonderfully meticulous Pierrepoint. Read full review

David Edelstein

Pierrepoint is worth seeing for Shergold's attention to process and for all the ghoulish details. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

A peculiar little film -- grim and disturbing yet perversely riveting. Read full review

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JimG

Jun 23, 2007

Disappointing primarily because Spall has always been so dependable. Unfortunately, the role he is given here is johnny one-note: the weight of pierrepoint's conscience is there at the beginning at the end with no real dramatic build. The same can be same for the cinematography. No Disappointing primarily because Spall has always been so dependable. Unfortunately, the role he is given here is johnny one-note: the weight of pierrepoint's conscience is there at the beginning at the end with no real dramatic build. The same can be same for the cinematography. No contrast is offered emotionally or visually.… Expand

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