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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
... 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
It’s filled with intriguing characters, it has a fascinating initial premise -- and then it runs off the rails.
11/07/08
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
Roman De Gare's neatest trick is [Dominique] Pinon's performance, which draws out a hitherto unseen leading-man allure.
04/24/08
Roman de Gare is the rare trick film in which all the tricks reveal something amusing, involving or poignant about its characters.
06/06/08
Pinon and Dana are so striking together.
05/16/08
With elements of road movie, thriller and comedy as well as other genres, Tracks possesses a freewheeling appeal.
05/30/08
If this kind of storytelling is your cup of absinthe, Claude Lelouch makes it easy to sip appreciatively.
07/18/08
Lelouch and his longtime writing partner, Pierre Uytterhoeven, slyly exploit and subvert audience expectations.
05/30/08
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 CriticLelouch's deft touch with various cinematic styles, however surface, enables him to interweave pastoral elegy, quirky social comedy and thriller with fluid ease.
05/22/08
[Director Lelouch] doesn't really move much beyond his usual glib panache here, but the plot is intriguing and so are the actors.
04/25/08
This goofy tale of self-emancipation, a love story made by a mature man wise to the possibilities of the improbable, is also a thriller with an unexpectedly dark edge.
05/15/08
Claude Lelouch's ode to the 'train station novel' is a perfectly balanced genre blend of romance and suspense thriller that shifts gears like an Aston Martin on Route One.
05/01/08
Thanks to the able cast and crisp cinematography, it's mostly unpretentious and reasonably entertaining.
05/09/08
[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
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
Director Lelouche has a ball playing games with the audience, tossing out red herrings, genre-bending with murder and romance.
04/16/08
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
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