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Man on the Train (L'Homme du Train) (2003)

3 Ratings: 5.0

Art House & International movie directed by Patrice Leconte

You wouldn't think a movie that's mostly two old guys talking could be a thriller, but that's exactly whatMan on the Trainis. French singer Johnny Hallyday plays a professional criminal who comes to a small town to take part in a robbery. … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Drama Movies, Foreign Movies, French Movies, Crime Movies, Crime Dramas

Cast: Jean-François Stévenin, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie Nelson, Pascal Parmentier

Director: Patrice Leconte

Genre: Foreign

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review by Charley2. November 29, 2011

posted in Love of Foreign Films

An excellent movie of paths not taken

On a cold weekday a single passenger gets off the train at a French village. The hotels are closed for the season, but he meets an elderly retired school teacher who offers him shelter. The first man is Milam (Johnny Hallyday), a tough, middle-aged criminal who plans to rob the village's bank on Saturday. The other is Manesquier (Jean Rochefort), an educated, aging man of limited means who still occasionally takes in a student to tutor. He will have a triple by-pass heart operation on Saturday. … more

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review by Giordano. May 21, 2010

posted in Movie Hype

The French Invented "Film Noir" ...

... and if you compare this polished black jewel of a film with anything made in English, you'll have to recognize why they still hold the patent! Milan, the hard silent menacing dude played by Johnny Hallyday, arrives by train in the 'deadest' small town in France, intending to rendezvous with other baddies and knock off the local bank. The local hotel is closed for the season, but Milan is taken in by Monsieur Manesquier (Jean Rochefort), a retired teacher of literature … more

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review by gradyharp. January 12, 2004

Duet for Actors

MAN ON THE TRAIN is a minor miracle of a film. The quiet story of how two wholly opposite aging men meet, interact, exchange philosophies, and mutate because of a simple chance meeting is not only fine writing, it is also a virtuoso turn for the talents of Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday. Rochefort is a loquacious, bored, congenial poetry teacher in semi-retirement, a man who not only loves to talk about Schumann but plays Schumann on his piano in his very old and boring house - and reads and … more

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