Fanny Ardant in Claude Lelouch’s Roman de Gare. Watch the trailer: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/408889/Roman-de-Gare/trailers
I read about this movie and the preview we saw where we see foreign films was enticing. A film by Claude Lelouch is always worth seeing. I recall how his 1966's A Man And A Woman was a popular success here and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. That love story set against a racing car background made it the perfect date movie (romance for the gals and cars for the guys) also had a bestselling soundtrack with its samba-like theme song flooding the airwaves. Lelouch's latest reminds me of his 1975's Cat and Mouse, a tricky detective film that we saw in Boston when it arrived here. Both films are well acted with interesting characters who weave in & out through the story's twists & turns and red herrings. You never know what is real until the end.
Roman de Gare is another teaser about a jilted finance who meets a man who she takes home to convince her family that he is her real finance and may be a serial killer. He also claims to be the ghost writer of a best selling authoress who is later accused of his murder when he disappears off her boat. That's a capsule summary but there's subplots tying other characters and events to the leads who each play a game of deception for their personal agenda.
Dominique Pinon who we last saw as a music loving hitman in Diva, another popular French film of years ago and worth seeing now, plays the ghost writer to Fanny Ardant who we've seen in many European films. Both actors have aged well and wear their parts well including Audrey Dana, who's new to me and holds her own against these two pros. But the real star here is Lelouch with all his trademark touches of comedy and come-ons wrapped in a mystery photographed like a travelogue. Pay close attention to the plot and hold on tight as Lelouch takes you for a leisurely ride that sneakily speeds up on you.
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