Roman de Gare is a sleek, attractive package made even more appealing by a trio of exquisite performers.
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06/08/08
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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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
Roman De Gare's neatest trick is [Dominique] Pinon's performance, which draws out a hitherto unseen leading-man allure.
04/24/08
Thanks to the able cast and crisp cinematography, it's mostly unpretentious and reasonably entertaining.
05/09/08
Compellingly paced, grandly acted, glossily photographed and often as entertaining as some guilty-pleasure Lana Turner melodrama of the '50s.
05/15/08
Claude Lelouch's 'Roman de gare'('Crossed Tracks'): A seductive, compulsively watchable little cat-and-mouse game
06/04/08
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
The term 'Hitchcockian' has become overused in recent years, but here is a movie to which it deserves to be applied.
04/22/08
Succeeds as a mystery, comedy and romance in unexpected ways.
05/15/08
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
A playful, delightful, and surprising exploration of love's mysterious ways.
04/24/08
filmmaking for filmmaking's sake.
04/24/08
With a winning combination of tension, romance and humor and picturesque locations from Paris to Burgundy’s vineyards to the seashore at Cannes, the film is a Francophile’s feast.
04/17/08
It's surprising, enthralling, intriguing, blackly droll, and a rattling good yarn.
11/07/08
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
[Lelouch] masterfully switches tone without missing a beat and has truly created a masterpiece that can only get better the more times it's watched.
04/23/08
I think I understand the alternative realities of the plot, and I concede the loose ends are tied up, sort of, but I didn't care.
05/23/08
Top CriticThough Lelouch has toned down his penchant for putting pretty pictures ahead of plot, there’s still a nagging sense of disposability.
04/24/08
Self-financed pic, which opens in Gaul on June 27, won't do much to win Lelouch any new fans at home or abroad. But it should amply please the old ones.
03/12/08
Top CriticLelouch and his longtime writing partner, Pierre Uytterhoeven, slyly exploit and subvert audience expectations.
05/30/08
Despite the superb acting and wonderfully sly dialogue, Roman de Gare can't tie all its bows neatly enough to be truly satisfying.
04/24/08
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