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L'homme du train
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| L'homme du train | |
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 L'homme du train DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Patrice Leconte |
| Produced by | Philippe Carcassonne |
| Written by | Claude Klotz |
| Starring | Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday |
| Distributed by | Paramount Classics (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 2 September 2002 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Language | French |
| IMDb profile | |
L'homme du train (The Man on the Train) is a 2002 French comic-drama film, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday.
The movie was shot in Annonay, France and won the audience awards at the Venice Film Festival for "Best Film" and "Best Actor" (Jean Rochefort) in 2002.
This was the first foreign language film in which the British Film Council invested £500,000 (€750,000). The total budget of the film was €5,000,000.
A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday)steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
At one point in the film, Jean Rochefort plays the piano for Johnny Hallyday and at the end of the piece asks him: "Are you musical?" Hallyday is one of France's best-known and most successful rock-and-rollers, so this is roughly the equivalent of Uma Thurman's line to John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction": "Do you dance?"
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