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The Girl on the Train (La fille du RER) The Good Soldier
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Based on an incident that shook France to its core in 2004, André
USA
From the opening footage spanning decades of combat action, it
Director: André Téchiné Téchiné’s drama focuses on a naive girl who fabricates a story about Directors: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys is apparent no audience will be spared the pain experienced by the
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd being attacked on a suburban Paris train by black and Arab youths Producers: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys subjects of Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys’s documentary: this disturbing,
Screenwriters: André Téchiné,
who supposedly mistook her for a Jew. Starring Emilie Dequenne (a
Screenwriters: Lexy Lovell,
deeply affecting look at war through the eyes of American veterans
Odile Barski, Jean-Marie Besset Cannes award winner and César nominee for 1999’s Rosetta) as young Michael Uys provides extraordinary perspective for civilian viewers. Five men who
Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch liar Jeanne and international icon Catherine Deneuve as her mother, it Cinematographer: Samuel Henriques fought variously in World War II, Vietnam, and the Middle East talk
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Editor: Martine Giordano
gauges the social and political climate of a nation beset by immigration about combat in a down-to-earth, matter-of-fact way that gives horrify-
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Editor: Sikay Tang
il
Cast: Emilie Dequenne,
issues and a new wave of anti-Semitism.
Cast: Jimmy Massey, Michael
ing new meaning to the term “brutal realities.” These are not masters
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Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, McPhearson, Perry Parks, of atrocity – they are good men who went to war to serve their country.
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Ronit Elkabetz, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Despite her job with a lawyer who’s active in Jewish causes (Michel
Will Williams, Edward Wood
There, they were taught to kill – it was their job; only later, sometimes
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2009 / b&w / 105 min. Blanc) and her romance with a tough, aspiring wrestler (Nicolas 2009 / color / 79 min. much later, did it come back to haunt them, filling them with anger and
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Duvauchelle), Jeanne seems devoid of awareness about the ways of the regret.
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world. Her accusations about the alleged train incident are half-baked,
French screenwriter and film director based on bits of conversation she’s overheard and her own need for Which is not to say the veterans speak with one voice; from the tightly
André Téchiné first fell into film as part
LExY LoVELL
attention. Certainly, the pretty rollerblader is blind to the implications
of the second generation of French
Lexy Lovell’s first documentary with
uniformed, professional soldier to the Marine who does penance by car-
and looming consequences of her act.
film critics associated with Cahiers du
Michael Uys, Riding the Rails, won
rying a sign in public confessing to acts of murder in Iraq, their outlooks
Cinema. Téchiné has earned awards
a Peabody Award, an LA Film Critics and coping methods vary. But each man brings his own authentic insight
from the Cannes Film Festival and
Téchiné (The Witnesses; The Wild Reeds) worked, in part, from
Award for Best Documentary, and a
to the story, helping to create a tableau that is as hard to turn away
the New York Critics Circle as well as Jean-Marie Besset’s play about the scandal, RER, as well as from news
DGA Award for Best Director. Lovell,
from as it is to watch. Surprisingly free of self-pity and blame, they
several César Awards. He is revered as
who graduated cum laude from Yale
reports and court records. The rest of the character development, he
one of the best post–New Wave French
University with a BA in History, also
soldier on in the path of awareness – just as The Good Soldier itself
says, comes from his own imagination. But like Besset, he believes the
directors.
produced and directed the short
eschews melodrama as a matter of respect for the searing honesty of its
original incident contained many messages about French culture and Getting Ready for Later, which won subjects.
Selected Filmography
history. “The story became the mirror of all French fears,” Téchiné has
a Silver Hugo from the Chicago Film
Festival.
The Witnesses (2007)
said, “a revelation of what we call the ‘collective unconscious.’ How an
Wild Reeds (1994) individual’s lie is transformed into truth with respect to the community
My Favorite Season (1993)
at large and its fears. It’s a truly fascinating subject.”
Barocco (1976) MiChaEL uYS
Paulina Is Leaving (1969) Michael Uys works in television,
Sponsored by:
commercials, and documentary
filmmaking and has won awards at
festivals worldwide. He has directed
spots for such clients as M&Ms,
Viagra, and The Washington Post.
His television work includes promos
for TLC’s Trading Spaces and image
campaigns for HBO, Lifetime, TLC,
and Spike.
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