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News & ArtsTuesday, March 9, 2010
Film This Week in Film: The Girl on the Train
Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM
Says Jon Frosch:
Téchiné’s latest, The Girl on the Train, tackles a hot-button true-life case: A few years ago, a suburban wackjob in her 20s falsely claimed to be a victim of a violent anti-Semitic attack, setting off a public frenzy that had journalists hyperventilating, French politicians apologizing, and Israel calling for Jews to flee France. (The kicker: She was a goy.) Unsurprisingly, Téchiné takes an off-center approach. Instead of documenting the controversy, he reimagines the series of circumstances, relationships, and emotions that might have led this young woman to cry wolf.
Read the full review HERE. More reviews, recommendations, and showtimes are HERE.
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