Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
(Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train)
Country: FR
Technical: col/Panavision 122m
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Pascal Greggory, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vincent Perez
Synopsis:
Relatives and friends of a dead painter take the train to Limoges, where he is to be buried in the family vault, and the bitterness of their lives reaches crisis point.
Review:
The first part of this baroque drama is a cinematic tour de force in much the same way as La Reine Margot's was: cutting, tightly choreographed shots at the station and on the train, and an incessant 'compilation' music track serve to introduce the characters and their tawdry lives with exhilarating economy. Indeed, one of the problems of the film is that the viewer is left to work out who everyone is to everyone else, who has died and so on. The scenes at the cemetery and at the wake degenerate a little into a parody of the dysfunctional family we have met so often, but rarely so top full of aberrations and delinquents. Little angst or pity is conjured for these laboratory mice, as they seem.
(Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train)
Country: FR
Technical: col/Panavision 122m
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Pascal Greggory, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vincent Perez
Synopsis:
Relatives and friends of a dead painter take the train to Limoges, where he is to be buried in the family vault, and the bitterness of their lives reaches crisis point.
Review:
The first part of this baroque drama is a cinematic tour de force in much the same way as La Reine Margot's was: cutting, tightly choreographed shots at the station and on the train, and an incessant 'compilation' music track serve to introduce the characters and their tawdry lives with exhilarating economy. Indeed, one of the problems of the film is that the viewer is left to work out who everyone is to everyone else, who has died and so on. The scenes at the cemetery and at the wake degenerate a little into a parody of the dysfunctional family we have met so often, but rarely so top full of aberrations and delinquents. Little angst or pity is conjured for these laboratory mice, as they seem.
(Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train)
Country: FR
Technical: col/Panavision 122m
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Cast: Pascal Greggory, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vincent Perez
Synopsis:
Relatives and friends of a dead painter take the train to Limoges, where he is to be buried in the family vault, and the bitterness of their lives reaches crisis point.
Review:
The first part of this baroque drama is a cinematic tour de force in much the same way as La Reine Margot's was: cutting, tightly choreographed shots at the station and on the train, and an incessant 'compilation' music track serve to introduce the characters and their tawdry lives with exhilarating economy. Indeed, one of the problems of the film is that the viewer is left to work out who everyone is to everyone else, who has died and so on. The scenes at the cemetery and at the wake degenerate a little into a parody of the dysfunctional family we have met so often, but rarely so top full of aberrations and delinquents. Little angst or pity is conjured for these laboratory mice, as they seem.