Fresh
Lelouch is now 71 years old, and I bet he's never had as much fun with a film. Roman de Gare threads plots and characters and twists together like a demented weaver.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Crossed Tracks
Some meetings are more fatal than others.
2007 · 1h 43m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Claude Lelouch
Overview
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?
Director and cast
- Claude Lelouch Director
- Dominique Pinon as Pierre Laclos
- Audrey Dana as Huguette, la « midinette »
- Fanny Ardant as Judith Ralitzer
- Michèle Bernier as Florence
- Myriam Boyer as la mère d'Huguette
- Zinedine Soualem as le commissaire
- Boris Ventura-Diaz Cast
- Cyrille Eldin Cast
- Marc Rioufol Cast
- Thomas Le Douarec Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Even if the game isn't entirely successful, it's fun to play along.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
Forty years after his breakout success as a filmmaker, Claude Lelouch makes something of a comeback with his playful and sexy whodunit, Roman de Gare.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Lelouch and his longtime writing partner, Pierre Uytterhoeven, slyly exploit and subvert audience expectations.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Rotten
I think I understand the alternative realities of the plot, and I concede the loose ends are tied up, sort of, but I didn't care.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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