Dienstag 17.12.2013
20:30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Jan Künemund
20:30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Jan Künemund
“The movie has been extrapolated from a real incident involving a 23-year-old woman, Marie-Léonie Leblanc, who in 2004 claimed she was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by six men of African and North African origin on a train outside Paris. She asserted that they slashed her clothes, lopped off some of her hair, scrawled swastikas on her body and, shockingly, pushed over a stroller with her baby inside.
The assault made international news. The French president, Jacques Chirac, condemned the attack, and the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, urged French Jews to leave for Israel to ‘escape the wildest anti-Semitism.’ But the assault never happened, and before long Ms. Leblanc, who isn’t Jewish, admitted that she had lied.
André Téchiné’s seductive drama ‘The Girl on the Train’ opens with an extended traveling shot inside a tunnel. The camera appears to be perched at the front of the train, so that it looks as if we’re hurtling through the dark toward the nearing light, an apt description of what happens to the title character and, to an extent, the viewer. The film can be described as a character study or a fictionalized slice of terribly real life. Mostly, though, it is an inquiry into the mysteries of other people.”
The assault made international news. The French president, Jacques Chirac, condemned the attack, and the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, urged French Jews to leave for Israel to ‘escape the wildest anti-Semitism.’ But the assault never happened, and before long Ms. Leblanc, who isn’t Jewish, admitted that she had lied.
André Téchiné’s seductive drama ‘The Girl on the Train’ opens with an extended traveling shot inside a tunnel. The camera appears to be perched at the front of the train, so that it looks as if we’re hurtling through the dark toward the nearing light, an apt description of what happens to the title character and, to an extent, the viewer. The film can be described as a character study or a fictionalized slice of terribly real life. Mostly, though, it is an inquiry into the mysteries of other people.”
[Mahnola Dargis / New York Times]
"What it's really about – and this sounds so boring, and so nothing, when in fact it's really rather wonderful – is people. Just regular people, a mother and daughter, whose lives are observed with economy and precision, and with an eye for the telling detail and the tense, revealing moment."
"What it's really about – and this sounds so boring, and so nothing, when in fact it's really rather wonderful – is people. Just regular people, a mother and daughter, whose lives are observed with economy and precision, and with an eye for the telling detail and the tense, revealing moment."
[Mick La Salle/ San Francisco Chronicle]
