Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Patrice Chéreau

Writers:

Danièle Thompson (scenario) &
Patrice Chéreau (scenario) ...

Release Date:

10 June 1998 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried...

Plot Keywords:

Train | Gay Interest | Transsexual | Homosexual | Funeral

Awards:

5 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Pascal Greggory	...	François
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi	...	Claire (as Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
Charles Berling	...	Jean-Marie
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich
Bruno Todeschini	...	Louis
Sylvain Jacques	...	Bruno
Vincent Perez	...	Viviane
Roschdy Zem	...	Thierry
Dominique Blanc	...	Catherine
Delphine Schiltz	...	Elodie
Nathan Kogen	...	Sami (as Nathan Cogan)
Marie Daëms	...	Lucie
Chantal Neuwirth	...	Geneviève
Thierry de Peretti	...	Dominique
Olivier Gourmet	...	Bernard

Also Known As:

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (USA)

Runtime:

122 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Hungary:18 | Argentina:16 | France:U | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R(A) | Spain:13 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France

Company:

Téléma

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where Claire and Viviane are sitting at the table discussing Viviane's name, Claire's hands alternate between touching her face and resting on the table repeatedly between shots.

Movie Connections:

Features A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Soundtrack:

I Will Survive

Citizen Train

Hard to avoid the Wellesian overtones here which begins with a death and goes on to explore the impact of the dead man not so much on the upper-case World as in Kane but on his own lower-case world as a fairly respectable number of those whose lives he touched travel to and assemble at his childhood home in Limoges. Amazingly one of the comments I've just read suggested that next time around the director employ a scriptwriter. This comment displays an ignorance verging on the colossal given that Daniele Thompson, who co-wrote the script from her own Original idea, is one of the outstanding screenwriters in French cinema having started with a classic 'Le Grand Vadrouille' at the age of 24 and progressing through such well-received titles as Le Follies de Grandeur, La Reine Margot until she began - with La Buche - to direct her own screenplays. Be that as it may the script is right up there with the best as are the performances not least the ever luminescent Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi whose performance alone is reason enough to see this. Okay, there are strong elements of homosexuality because it's inevitable that homosexuals are very much a presence in the modern world. As a heterosexual I wouldn't have a great deal if any at all interest in out-and-out homosexual films, literature or plays but neither did the homosexual content here bother/disturb me because it was shown in context within a highly complex, swiss-movement be-jewelled story. One that bears repeated viewings.