Man on the Train (2002) (French with English Subtitles - Dol)
by Patrice Leconte
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Actor: Charlie Nelson, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Fran?ois St?venin, Johnny Hallyday, Pascal ParmentierDirector: Patrice Leconte
Cinematographer: Jean-Marie Dreujou
Editor: Jo?lle Hache
Producer: Carl Clifton
Producer: Christophe Audeguis
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne
Writer: Claude Klotz
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 2003-11-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount
VHS Movie Reviews of Man on the Train (2002) (French with English Subtitles - Dol)
Movie Review: A poetic of the solitude!
Summary: 5 Stars
Two men meet themselves accidentally in a little town. One of them keeps a secret, while the other is extremely friendly.
A weird friendship will arouse among them - with Schubert's First Impromptu OP. 142 as musical curtain - in which both will be aware about their unfinished projects of life from two well different perspectives. One is a thief who plans to steal a bank, while the other is a retired poetry professor.
An emblematic resemblance of two well opposite sides of he coin united by the unhappiness and existential solitude.
A film that literally captivated and engaged the members of the Jury in Venice 2002 as Bes Film and Best Actor.
The performance given by Jean Rochefort is simply out of this world.
Movie Review: Assured film-making
Summary: 4 Stars
This French film will keep you happily entertained for an hour and a half. It concerns two men with completely opposite life-styles who meet and then gradually come to the realisation that they would prefer the other persons life to their own. This being a French movie its all done with a style and pace that is completly different from standard Hollywood movies, so don't expect Mission Impossible III. There is one character in the film who speaks once a day at 10.00am, and when he does speak its a bit like Eric Cantona - very enigmatic!
The character Milan who leaves the train at the beginning of the film is a professional thief. The man he meets (Monsieur Manesquier) is a retired school teacher and writer of poetry. Initially Milan has nothing but contempt for the old school teacher and this leads to some funny scenes where Manesquier tries to impress Milan by working out or generally acting cool. The school teacher even goes as far as volunteering to help Milan in his up and coming bank heist.
So this won't be to everybodies taste, but if you stick with it theres a good chance you will enjoy it.
Movie Review: "You watch too many thrillers."
Summary: 5 Stars
L'Homme du Train is one of Patrice Leconte's best films, playing nicely to his strengths and never outstaying its welcome thanks to a tight running time. An arthouse success outside France but a disappointment in its home territory, it's a wistful look at life's disappointments and missed opportunities seen through the unlikely friendship of Johnny Hallyday's ageing bank robber checking out a small town bank and Jean Rochefort's retired schoolteacher who watches too many thrillers as each man sees in the other the life they could have lived had they only had the courage to try. The former monosyllabic and increasingly cautious, the latter unguardedly talkative, this odd couple make an engagingly credible friends, united by their own rapidly approaching dates with their respective fates.
In many ways its almost a small-scale modern-day Gallic working of Hugo Fregonese's melancholy 1954 Civil War Western The Raid, which saw Van Heflin's Confederate tempted to settle in the town he has come to destroy given a French thriller makeover, even retaining some Western motifs in Rochefort's Wyatt Earp fantasies. But while the ending is never in any doubt, one of the chief delights of the film is the unexpected turns it sometimes takes, never more than in a delightful scene in a bistro where Rochefort decides to take on some bad-mannered troublemakers against Hallyday's advice only to find things turning out very differently from what both men expected. Even scenes you'd expect to be played for comic disaster turn out quietly triumphant, such as Hallyday teaching one of Rochefort's private lessons for him - and actually turning out to be good at it despite never even reading the book under discussion.
It's a small film, but one that never feels like a chamber piece, and even if it slightly overplays its finale as each man briefly gets their wish, its small pleasures and genuine affection for its characters more than compensate. Sadly, unlike the French DVD, this release is barebones and devoid of extras, but the film itself is reason enough to buy.
Movie Review: EXCELLENT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE HEROIC AND GREAT WEARY FRENCH INTELLECT
Summary: 5 Stars
I discovered this film on a rack in a liquor store in Mexico and brought it home for viewing. It builds much more slowly and subtly than the vast majority of American disposable blockbusters. In fact it withstands and demands and rewards several viewings, like re-reading James Joyce all of your life. I have used it very well in French One classes, and the students ask to see it again, despite the undeserved R ratiing. I cannot see anything in this film which merits the Restricted rating, except perhaps it does not make fun of the French, except in a very subtle and wry manner. If the R is for language, hey, it's in French! And I do not see any obscenities. Heck, Shreck has more obscenities. Rather this film is filled with poetry, including declaimed by a ruffian to his former poetry professor who confronts him as a means of ending his old and sad life and only comes out a hero. This film is way to subtle for the average American viewer trained on blast-and-crash movies, but please live with it awhile until you can perceive its intricate gossamer invisible webs and resonance. The forsaken robber who speaks only one line of original poetry at ten o'clock each morning is inexplicably gripping and poignant and exposing the harsh light of speaking about him only destroys the compelling effect. This gentle film builds slowly to the bright day of a fulfilling and illuminating and revelatory ending like great films as Grand Illusion or Babette's Feast. I highly recommend it, as one who lived in France over thirty years ago. Its American R rating is incomprehensible.Movie Review: A Lasting Impact
Summary: 4 Stars
A teacher and a lifelong criminal meet in a pharmacy in a small, out of season French town. The hotel is closed, the thief and his headache wind up at the teacher's big old family house. Days pass. One laconic, one loquacious, each is ever more drawn to the other's life. Saturday approaches; each prepares and subtly prepares the other for the approaching personal crossroads. And for both Saturday goes terribly wrong but brings one last shared miraculous moment and vision to move each man beyond what his life before has been. Meticulously acted by Jean Rochefort and a weary Johnny Halladay and tensely quiet until its jarring conclusion, Man on a Train retains its grip long after the final credits.
Summary of Man on the Train (2002) (French with English Subtitles - Dol)
You wouldn't think a movie that's mostly two old guys talking could be a thriller, but that's exactly what Man on the Train is. French singer Johnny Hallyday plays a professional criminal who comes to a small town to take part in a robbery. By chance, he meets talkative Jean Rochefort (The Hairdresser's Husband), who invites the laconic Hallyday to stay at his house because the hotel is closed. The two form an unlikely friendship, each curious about (and envious of) the other's life. But all the while plans for the robbery continue, while Rochefort is preparing for a dangerous event of his own. The pitch-perfect performances make Man on the Train completely involving. Rochefort and Hallyday play off of each other beautifully; it's impossible to put your finger on what makes these subtle, supple scenes so magnetic. Directed with spare authority by Patrice Leconte (Ridicule). --Bret FetzerFrance Video
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