The air of Gallic nonchalance ensures you have a lot of fun watching Pinon and Ardant match wits. It's Dana, however, who anchors the story.
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11/14/08
Roman de Gare (2008)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:62
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Claude Lelouch has crafted an engaging thriller about murder and romance with plenty of stylistic panache.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Aug 24, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $1,735,301
Synopsis: True to its title, ROMAN DE GARE (CROSSED TRACKS) finds famed French director Claude Lelouch (UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME) jumping between time and loyalties in this suspenseful mystery about fate and... [More]
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem
Director: Claude Lelouch
Reviews for Roman de Gare
Top CriticAn engaging, enjoyable slice of suspense from the French.
11/14/08
Top CriticIt's surprising, enthralling, intriguing, blackly droll, and a rattling good yarn.
11/07/08
Top CriticRed herrings abound and audience frustration sets in. It's a pity because the film looks good and the Gilbert Becaud songs on the soundtrack are easy on the ear.
11/07/08
Top CriticIt’s filled with intriguing characters, it has a fascinating initial premise -- and then it runs off the rails.
11/07/08
Top CriticThe thriller elements that become the crucial threads in the third act are a bit clunky and the resolution is not convincing, either dramatically or romantically, but the film is nonetheless an entertaining journey
10/31/08
Top CriticLelouch surprises us at every turn and we never know where the story is going to take us.
10/31/08
Top CriticIs it supposed to be funny, tragic or what? Even the characters don't seem too sure.
11/13/08
There's a lushness and emotional charge here that makes this very watchable. Don't expect poetry, though; it's more like a good crossword puzzle.
11/07/08
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10/18/08
It’s too bad you can’t shove a new theatrical release into your beach bag, as if it were a well-worn paperback.
09/10/08
Lelouch is now 71 years old, and I bet he's never had as much fun with a film. Roman de Gare threads plots and characters and twists together like a demented weaver.
08/22/08
The ever-appealing Fanny Ardant and the enigmatic, pug-faced character actor Dominique Pinon have many subtle delights up their sleeves, and newcomer Audrey Dana is a revelation.
08/07/08
... about the creation of fiction, the way we spin lies together into a simulacrum of life - if there's any philosophical point of view beyond that it's that every narrative is necessarily an abridgment of truth.
08/01/08
What's especially clever about the plotting is that anything that proves to be merely a red herring is then incorporated into another storyline.
07/24/08
If this kind of storytelling is your cup of absinthe, Claude Lelouch makes it easy to sip appreciatively.
07/18/08
In many ways, Lelouch's film is -- in its somewhat old-fashioned way (which isn't a pejorative) -- the most bracing dose of cinema I've seen all year.
07/16/08
Provides one of the year's more memorable movie moments: a simple shot of a barn, overlaid with both the soothing crooning of a Gilbert Becaud pop song and the terrified squeals of a hog being slaughtered.
07/11/08
Even if the game isn't entirely successful, it's fun to play along.
06/27/08
It's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box of duplicitous people doing mysterious things, men and women.
06/20/08
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