Man on the Train

Original title: L'homme du train

2002
R
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

7.6K

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Johnny Hallyday and Jean Rochefort in Man on the Train (2002)

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A man steps off a train into a French village awaiting the day when he will rob the town bank. He meets a retired poetry teacher striking up a strange friendship and explore the road not tak... Read allA man steps off a train into a French village awaiting the day when he will rob the town bank. He meets a retired poetry teacher striking up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.A man steps off a train into a French village awaiting the day when he will rob the town bank. He meets a retired poetry teacher striking up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

7.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 8 wins & 10 nominations total

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Man on the Train

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Trivia
Jean Rochefort died in October 2017. Two months later, Johnny Hallyday died.

Quotes
Milan: One guy can't take two on, except in the movies.

Connections
Referenced in 69 minutes sans chichis: Johnny Hallyday (2015)

Soundtracks
Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 142 No. 2 (D. 935)
Written by Franz Schubert

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8/10

Interesting and beautiful

'The Man on the Train' is a beautiful movie about two man later in life. One of them is a bank robber, the other is a teacher. They meet by accident and become friends. Slowly they both start wishing they would have been the other man.

The teacher (Jean Rochefort) knows what the bank robber (Johnny Hallyday) does for his money. He even offers to help, but the day the bank will be robbed he has to go into surgery. We see how the teacher pretends to be a cool guy, even changes his looks to that. We also see how the bank robber pretends to be a teacher when the real teacher is out.

All this leads to an ending that closes things in one way, but leaves things open in another. We feel an ending like this coming, but it still works. It is beautiful and fits the rest of the movie perfectly.

If your favorite movies are like 'The Fast and the Furious' you will probably not like this. It is a real European movie, sometimes slow, most of the time very quiet, but if you can appreciate this kind of film making you will like 'The Man on the Train'.