2010
March 2010
Sunday 21 March 2010
Sun 21 Mar, 2 pm. Seven Congress Square, Portland, 04101. 207-775-6148, info@portlandmuseum.org. Portland Museum of Art - [events]
NR Based on a play by Jean-Marie Besset, The Girl on the Train is inspired by one of the most media-blitzed and polarizing events in recent French history: a young woman’s lie about being the victim of an anti-semitic attack on a Paris suburban train. Jobless, soul-searching, and rollerblading Jeanne lives in a Paris suburb with her widowed mother Louise, who makes a living as a baby-sitter. Louise helps her daughter get a job with her old flame Samuel Bleistein, now a famous lawyer and Jewish activist. When Jeanne’s budding relationship with aspiring wrestler Franck is shattered by a violent turn of events, Jeanne and Bleistein’s opposite worlds get set on a collision course, as the film becomes a complex psychological drama
In French with English subtitles.
“A seductive drama.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Émilie Dequenne, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Michel Blanc, and David Barbas
Directed by André Téchiné, 2010
RT: 105 min.