 The Girl on the Train
Starring: Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Ronit Elkabetz, Matthieu Demy
Directed by: André Téchiné
Screenplay by: André Téchiné, Odile Barski, Jean-Marie Besset
Release Date: January 22, 2010
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Strand Releasing
 Domestic: $205,921 (70.8%)
Foreign: $84,829 (28.2%)
Total: $290,750 (Worldwide)
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 Jobless, soul-searching and rollerblading Jeanne lives in a Paris suburb with her widowed mother Louise, who makes a living as a baby-sitter. Louise helps her daughter get a job with her old flame Samuel Bleistein, now a famous lawyer and Jewish activist. When Jeanne's budding relationship with aspiring wrestler Franck is shattered by a violent turn of events, Jeanne and Bleistein's opposite worlds get set on a collision course, raising issues of race, religion and identity.
Andre Techine's many admirers will not be disappointed by his latest offering, The Girl on the Train, but they might be hard-pressed to define it.
Ostensibly the movie is, in the words of one of the main characters, "the story of a lie," but as always with this director, the pleasures reside in the fine detail rather than the broad sweep. Art house audiences will be well rewarded. The film plays in April at the annual City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival in Los Angeles.
Techine's starting point is a true story that raised a storm in France five years ago when a young woman announced that she had been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack on a Paris suburban train, creating a media uproar that drew in even the head of state, only for the affair to be revealed as a fabrication.
 Production notes provided by Strand Releasing. |
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