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Embark on this train for a fascinating journey alongside two sacred monsters of French cinema, Yves Montant and Anouk Aimée. Between dream and reality, freedom and loneliness, love and death, past and future, you may get lost sometimes, but it will only be to better find yourself and who you really are ... An incredible atmosphere served by beautiful painting-like images of bleak landscapes that let the imagination wander. All the actors, including the supporting roles, deliver a very good performance. The close-ups of those lost faces or busy hands are fascinating and slowly lead you into another world ... It is a timeless movie, filled with oniric symbols, at times disturbing and even scary. It's a strange, slow, contemplative movie that you can watch and watch again to discover new interpretatons and symbols. Embark on this train and let yourself be carried away on a fabulous journey!

The drama of in-communicability as never before,and never after.A couple ,Montand and Aimée, feels that their love is becoming a thing of the past.He is a linguistics professor,he reigns over words and culture;she does not understand the language they speak in this part of Belgium. One night,both take a train;suddenly it stops.Anne (Aimée) has disappeared ,and Matthias (Montand) gets out of the train.With two unknown guys,he sees the train silently and slowly moving ,like in a dream.The dream has begun.

Matthias and his two mates are left alone in the country.They arrive in a small village where,that crowns it,the university professor cannot understand a single world of the inhabitants' language.A very strange scene shows the three men coming into a tiny movie theater.On the screen,an odd,almost disturbing film is projected:a parachutist floating in the air,sometimes shot in close-up,with an almost unbearable soundtrack.The audience seems to live in another world.Not only Matthias does not understand the language,but he does not understand their entertainment either .Then they go to a restaurant ,the staff of which seems to wait for them.Maybe..

When he returns to reality,Matthias will find out how selfish he has been with Anne.But it's a movie you can interpret in accordance with your sensitivity.Never a director has gone so far in intertwining dream with reality.The in communicability of Matthias and the strange people of his dream is a metaphor of that of the two lovers.But ,because of the harrowing conclusion,which leaves the audience totally hopeless,perhaps this dream was an escape,or a way to delay what was ineluctable.André Delvaux gave us the best European movie of 1968.

"Un soir un Train" is one of the rare movies I keep watching over and over, simply because André Delvaux, a painter himself, used the same technique as that of a painting. Every picture is a piece of artistic poetry. Anouk Aimée superbly contributes to the dreamy atmosphere of the movie and Yves Montand struggling out of this nightmare is really moving.

"Un soir un train " is really a must see.

In many cases, poetic is define the image sustaining the story. For Un soir, un train, poetic is each character portrait and the story itself. Sure, easy to define it as oniric , as reflection about multiculturalism, youth , love and answers to bizarre situation but, obvious, precise crafted being, scene by scene, this profound beautiful film represents more.

Sure, for main actors performances, symbols and continuu kick to reflection .

For admirable work of Adriana Bogdan and the hypnotic dance of her character - sure, as Romanian I am profound subjective. For the ambiguity of final and for the fragile border between reality and presumed dream. Not the last, for music.

In short, great movie, for so many reasons, just useful.