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I love Patrice
Leconte. In fact, it drives me nuts that I can only
see a small percentage of his career work on videotape here
in America. For me, his best work are his fatalistic looks
at uncomfortable, unavoidable love.
In that context, L’HOMME DU TRAIN was a little
bit of a letdown.
The film
stars the great Jean Rochefort, who is also at the
center of the festival documentary, Lost in La Mancha,
and French pop singer Johnny Hallyday. Hallyday plays a near-silent tough guy with
Mickey Rourke eyes… which is to say that his plastic
surgeon has pulled the tarp a little too tight.
As the movie
evolves, we experience the two men finding that the other
seems to be the natural flip sign to the coin of their personality.
It’s interesting stuff and Rochefort, as the chatty
one, keeps the audience involved.
It just doesn’t have the clarity of Leconte’s best
work.
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