The Girl on the Train
Atypically, vet Gallic helmer Andre Techine’s latest fi lm, ”The Girl on the Train”, centers on one of the most media-blitzed events of recent French history: a young woman’s invented story about being attacked on a train by black and Arab youths who mistook her for a Jew. From this polarizing lie, Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne (Rosetta), whose radiant physicality threatens to eclipse even Catherine Deneuve.
– RONNIE SCHEIB, VARIETY
The pleasure of ”The Girl on the Train” lies in its leisurely unfolding, and in the way that the various characters’ personal dramas interweave with the political background, namely resurgent French anti-Semitism and its present and historical context. While the fi lm is anything but formally gimmicky, Techine gives the drama a distinctive visual energy, with DoP Julien Hirsch once again cultivating the unusually vibrant colour scheme of ”The Witnesses”.
– JONATHAN ROMNEY, SCREEN INTERNATIONALDuration: 105 min
Dialogue: French
Subtitles: English
