L'homme du train (2002)
Country: FR/GB/GER/JAP
Technical: col/Panavision 90m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin
Synopsis:
An old timer planning a bank robbery in a provincial town meets a retired schoolteacher, and their last days are full of shared reminiscences and mutual envy which never quite tumbles into regret.
Review:
One of those ineffable, witty entertainments typical of this director at his best, full of dialogue choicely couched between crudity and erudition. The two actors contrast perfectly - the cautious, taciturn Halliday, and the flamboyantly loquacious Rochefort riffing, as it were, his characterization in Le mari de la coiffeuse. In no other filmmaker's work would one find the dramatic ingredients of a thriller, thematic concerns worthy of Proust and Alain-Fournier, and the kind of observational humour which encompasses merciless thumbnails of Romantic composers and the irritating habit of a shopkeeper saying 'Et avec ça?' when one buys a loaf of bread.
Country: FR/GB/GER/JAP
Technical: col/Panavision 90m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin
Synopsis:
An old timer planning a bank robbery in a provincial town meets a retired schoolteacher, and their last days are full of shared reminiscences and mutual envy which never quite tumbles into regret.
Review:
One of those ineffable, witty entertainments typical of this director at his best, full of dialogue choicely couched between crudity and erudition. The two actors contrast perfectly - the cautious, taciturn Halliday, and the flamboyantly loquacious Rochefort riffing, as it were, his characterization in Le mari de la coiffeuse. In no other filmmaker's work would one find the dramatic ingredients of a thriller, thematic concerns worthy of Proust and Alain-Fournier, and the kind of observational humour which encompasses merciless thumbnails of Romantic composers and the irritating habit of a shopkeeper saying 'Et avec ça?' when one buys a loaf of bread.
Country: FR/GB/GER/JAP
Technical: col/Panavision 90m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin
Synopsis:
An old timer planning a bank robbery in a provincial town meets a retired schoolteacher, and their last days are full of shared reminiscences and mutual envy which never quite tumbles into regret.
Review:
One of those ineffable, witty entertainments typical of this director at his best, full of dialogue choicely couched between crudity and erudition. The two actors contrast perfectly - the cautious, taciturn Halliday, and the flamboyantly loquacious Rochefort riffing, as it were, his characterization in Le mari de la coiffeuse. In no other filmmaker's work would one find the dramatic ingredients of a thriller, thematic concerns worthy of Proust and Alain-Fournier, and the kind of observational humour which encompasses merciless thumbnails of Romantic composers and the irritating habit of a shopkeeper saying 'Et avec ça?' when one buys a loaf of bread.