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Hi folks, well there are stacks of good films to watch at the DoY in the coming week so who fancies coming on Thursday evening to watch L'HOMME DU TRAIN, review below. Meet at 6:30 in Duke of York upstairs bar, film starts at 6:45.
Next week there are two films I want to see, Lilya 4 Ever and Russian Ark. Lilya is a very bleak film about a young girl who is abandoned and then becomes a refuge and is sucked into prostitution (DoY review below) and Russian Ark is a bit of a period piece but is filmed as one shot. How about Lilya at 2 on Wed 7th May and Russian Ark at 4:15 on Thursday 8th? Meet 15 mins before then in the upstairs bar.
L'HOMME DU TRAIN
Directed by Patrice Leconte.
Starring Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Isabelle Petit-Jacques.
Produced France 2002. French with English subtitles.
Certificate (12A)
Running time 90 mins.
Bringing together two of France’s best known performers, veterans Jean Rochefort (whose familiar hang dog features were last seen in LOST IN LA MANCHA) and pop icon Johnny Hallyday, L’HOMME DU TRAIN offers further confirmation of Leconte’s (MONSIEUR HIRE, RIDICULE, THE WIDOW OF SAINT PIERRE) versatility as a director. Rochefort plays Monsieur Manesquier, a retired school teacher who has lived all his life in a small provincial town, now rattling around home alone in the rambling family pile. His life is comfortable but routine in the extreme, even in the smallest detail. Hallyday is Milan, an ageing criminal who arrives in town to case out the bank, and who by dint of circumstance winds up staying as Manesquier’s reluctant house guest. The two could not be less alike, but as erudite, charming host and taciturn tough guy rub along together. Delightfully wistful in tone, the chemistry between Rochefort and Hallyday is pleasurably palpable.
LILYA 4-EVER
Directed by Lukas Moodysson.
Starring Oksana Akinshina, Artiom Bogucharskij, Elina Benenson.
Produced Sweden 2002.
Certificate (18)
Running time 109 mins.
The winner of five major prizes at Sweden’s 38th Guldbagge Awards (including Best Director and Best Actress for Russian born Oksana Akinshina), Moodysson’s (SHOW ME LOVE) follow up to the sublime TOGETHER is a harrowing and sobering work about adults’ neglect and abuse of young people. Lilya (Akinshina) is 16 and lives in a dismal suburb in a nameless town in the former Soviet Union. Abandoned by her mother and bullied by a wicked aunt, her only comfort comes from Volodya (Bogucharskij), a good-hearted younger boy who she befriends. Hope arrives when Lilya meets and falls in love with Andrei (Ponomaryov), who asks her to move to Sweden with him and begin a new life. Full of anticipation she boards the plane, unaware that her dreams are about to turn into nightmares. A brave and compelling move after the feel-good TOGETHER, the film confirms Moodysson as one of Sweden’s most accomplished, daring and insightful directors.
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