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Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train
Background Information: Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train marks a change of genre & setting after Patrice Chéreaus last film, the lurid & sweeping historical drama La Reine Margot . But here too he gives us a story of familial violence & emotional extremes. The train-takers in this classy French drama of extended family relations are the friends, relatives & ex-lovers of the deceased Jean-Baptiste , a depressive Parisian painter, fond of Francis Bacon, & a conduit, he sometimes thinks, for the voice of Satan. The first section gets good mileage from putting contrasting & sometimes squabbling people in a confined space to see what happens. Mostly they out themselves as troubled types , because theyre like that anyway, & because their dealings with the exploitative old painter havent helped. Like most dramas of family life in times of crisis, especially the French ones, its a pageant of dysfunction, maybe given a touch more colour by the bohemian setting. As the film continues, the cast swells to include other relatives & friends who arrive at the funeral at Limoges. The film partly resembles Festen, in that a familial get-together occasions the unveiling of secrets & lies. But compared to Festen, the revelations are less shocking, if only because the ramparts of respectability are very shaky from the word go. Chéreaus visual style has its handheld moments , but theres a classical rhythm to the revelations, some of which emerge in powerful set pieces. The bust-ups feel necessary, & they usher in a more upbeat ending, of which the transsexual Viviane is the guardian angel. Viviane seems to stand for the possibility of leading a more authentic & inventive life.
Biography: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, is an actress. Like her younger sister, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni, she has settled in France, though being raised bilingual by her French mother & Italian father, she regularly acts also in Italy. Although she began acting in 1986, only recently has she been chosen to play in top roles of internationally acclaimed movies. These include, most notably, Ten Minutes Older ; Bernardo Bertolucci s Histoire deaux segment in the movie The Cello ; & the 2004 5x2 by François Ozon, in which she played the main female role. Tickets, a three-segment movie by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami & Ken Loach ; & Crustacés et coquillages, a comedy by the witty homosexual French duo Olivier Ducastel & Jaques Martineau. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi at the Internet Movie Database.
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