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Roman de gare
Samuel Goldwyn Films
MPAA RATING: R for brief language and sexual references
Starring
Audrey Dana,
Dominique Pinon,
and
Fanny Ardant
Best-selling author Judith Ralitzer is researching unlikely places to find characters for her next bestseller. As luck would have it, a serial killer with a penchant for magic tricks has just escaped from a high-security prison…providing the perfect source material for an intricately plotted, mood mystery. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Claude Lelouch
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Claude Lelouch
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: April 25, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A brilliant piece of construction, and talking too much about its specifics would only spoil the overall experience.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Like nearly any thriller, no matter how intelligently and tightly plotted, it is possible to poke holes in its fabric. But, as it's unspooling in the theater, it makes for a wonderful movie house experience. Here's a sleeper worth a few extra miles' travel to see.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A sly catalog of deceits and a gentle commentary on slippery creativity and desire.

83
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
By far the most purely entertaining of all his films to reach these shores, Roman de Gare is the rare trick film in which all the tricks reveal something amusing, involving or poignant about its characters.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The freshness and originality that flow through Roman de Gare now burst into full flower, revealing the director's depth and perception.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A glossy, enjoyable thriller that isn't quite as tricky or Hitchcockian as it wants to be, Roman de Gare gets by on high style and nice central performances by rubber-faced Dominique Pinon.

80
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Slyly exploiting audience expectations and prejudices, Lelouch calls into question our very ways of seeing, even as he and his longtime writing partner, Pierre Uytterhoeven, craft an elegant meditation on loss and rebirth.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
The result is infectiously enjoyable.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Roman de Gare translates as "station novel," a book you might pick up to read on a train journey and then discard when you arrive at your destination. Lelouch's film is the cinematic equivalent, enjoyable fluff that your mind will discard after the closing credits - but worth seeing nevertheless.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Lelouch means to transcend the genre. He doesn't really move much beyond his usual glib panache here, but the plot is intriguing and so are the actors.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The structure of Lelouch's pedal-to-the-metal story commands attention and suspense. The three principals are enormously engaging, and Gérard de Battista's succulent cinematography creates the sense of actually being there.

75
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
The ultimate charms of the movie lie in Lelouch’s confident control, in his telling of the story his way, almost stubbornly, his canvas splattered with both garish and hypnotic splotches.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
There's a lot of pleasure in seeing a mature filmmaker put together something so intricate with what seems like so little strain.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The film's not really a whodunit or even a whoizzit, so learning his identity matters less than what happens after he reveals it. The film becomes truly French in its attitudes toward thwarted ambition and emotion, right down to an ending that may strike Americans as melodramatic.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
If you're willing to go along with it, as I was, then being manipulated -- or at least actively misled -- becomes a pleasure.

70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
A thriller, a murder mystery and a somewhat self-conscious literary puzzle. All of that is entertaining enough, if a bit preposterous and overdone, but the twists and convolutions of the film’s beginning and end enable a middle that is dizzying domestic comedy.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie is more entertaining than it is logical; its narrative leaps are sometimes ahead of our ability to believe them. But as the compellingly enigmatic Pierre, Pinon keeps us rapt.

70
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
This goofy tale of self-emancipation, a love story made by a mature man wise to the possibilities of the improbable, is also a thriller with an unexpectedly dark edge.

70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The air of mystery here is appealing, because the secrets behind it seem to matter both a great deal and not at all--rather like love, which has been Lelouch’s subject ever since he made "A Man and a Woman."

70
Variety
Scott Foundas
Picture gets an undeniable boost from the ace performance of the short, beady-eyed Pinon.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Sam Adams
Roman De Gare's neatest trick is Pinon's performance, which draws out a hitherto unseen leading-man allure.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The film -- Lelouch's 49th in 41 years -- stars Fanny Ardant as a glamorous, beautiful and phenomenally popular Parisian novelist who we first see in a flash-forward as she's being hauled into the Sureté, interrogated and formally charged with murder.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's contemporary French cinema without a dollop of Besson and Jeunet's beloved CGI theatrics, and all the better for it.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Never seen a murder mystery you couldn't outwit? Here is your movie.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's so clever that finally that's all it is: clever.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The 70-something director puts us back in luxury's lap with Roman de Gare, which looks just like the high-roller ads you get in the first 40 pages of Vogue or Vanity Fair but feels vaguely more emotional. Lelouch wants to tie a Hermès scarf around our hearts.

40
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
The story's Hitchcockian plot loses steam quickly, though Pinon's salty presence keeps things from getting totally bloodless.


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