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The Girl on the Train (La Fille du RER) (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 11

It's a bit of a comedown for director Andr� T�chin�, but this fact-based drama raises some thorny questions -- and benefits from strong performances by Catherine Deneuve and Emilie Dequenne.

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 3

It's a bit of a comedown for director Andr� T�chin�, but this fact-based drama raises some thorny questions -- and benefits from strong performances by Catherine Deneuve and Emilie Dequenne.

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In 2004, a grotesque and unseemly incident took the European press by storm: a young French woman came forward and claimed to have been attacked by black and Arab thugs who mistook her for a Jew. But after her story broke, no witnesses came forward to support her, and security cameras at the train station revealed no such attack; the woman later admitted that she had ripped her own clothes, drawn swastikas on her own stomach, and fabricated the entire story. With the drama Fille du RER,

Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Andre Techine

Written By: Andre Techine, Odile Barski, Jean-Marie Besset

In Theaters: Jan 22, 2010 Wide

On DVD: May 18, 2010

Box Office:$0.2M

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A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit.

April 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

Top Critic

Although the main character's motivations remain largely a matter of conjecture, The Girl on the Train is a compelling piece of cinema.

April 22, 2010 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

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The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.

April 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

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The movie seems likely to be about anti-Semitism, but that's more the occasion than the subject.

April 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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It's a well-acted, but frustratingly inconclusive exercise.

March 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

This is T�chin�'s gift -- not just detail, but telling detail; and not just slices of life, but slices as rich as a cassata cake.

March 18, 2010 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

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Understated but involving, The Girl On The Train tells a very personal and specific story that resonates with wider insight into the state of modern France.

June 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Express

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Allan Hunter

Daily Express

It's an interesting approach, avoiding didactic hand-wringing in favour of elliptical character drama...

June 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Scotsman

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Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

Andr� T�chin�'s spellbinding storytelling glosses over the issue somewhat, but never deplorably so.

June 4, 2010 Comment

Adam Woodward

Little White Lies

A rare disappointment from Andr� T�chin�...

June 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph

The film doesn't quite solve the puzzle -- why the girl did it -- but it doodles intriguing equations and theories on the blackboard.

June 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Financial Times

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

The film's complex political and social themes are frustratingly simplified, reducing events to bare-bones implausibility and making empathy hard despite the impressively subtle performances.

June 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Radio Times

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Sloan Freer

Radio Times

The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers

June 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Time Out

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David Jenkins

Time Out

The French-made drama is too aloof and measured, even when things should get more heated and emotional.

May 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Jeff Vice

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

How do you say Tawana Brawley en Francais?

May 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Sly Fox

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Kam Williams

Sly Fox

Techine once again displays a masterful control ofall aspects of his movie, a typically rich character study.

May 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Windy City Times

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Richard Knight

Windy City Times

�milie Dequenne projects little in the lead; neither her passion nor her foolhardy decision to draw attention by claiming the mantle of victimhood convinces.

April 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Oregonian

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Shawn Levy

Oregonian

Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.

April 29, 2010 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A character study par excellence, that simmers and lingers and reveals itself only by inches.

April 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Perhaps the most prominent characters in the film are the trains themselves. They keep roaring past and taking the camera into dark tunnels, a ubiquitous, vaguely malignant presence.

April 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Could have been a bit more focused and refined but it is still a rich, deep, and complex drama with spectacular performances by Deneuve, Blanc, and Dequenne.

April 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Retriever

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Brian Tallerico

Movie Retriever

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In "The Girl on the Train," Jeanne(Emilie Dequenne), a feckless young woman, spends he days rollerblading in Paris when she is approached by Franck(Nicolas Duvauchelle), an amateur wrestler and the kind of man her mother Louise(Catherine Deneuve) would warn her about. She initially rebuffs him but becomes more

January 24, 2010

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

Well-intended psychodrama for the hyper PC French nation. I can't criticize it for that. "Real" French versus Jews versus the Others.... why can't we all live together? Personally I just can't get that exercised over it. If it was set somewhere more hypothetical, like Mars, I'd say it's not a very good script at all.

May 31, 2011

Hal Morris

Super Reviewer

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