Vengeance first published by EyeforFilm If Johnnie To was already looking towards the cinematic sensibilities of French directors Jacques Demy and Robert Bresson with his stylish pickpocket caper Sparrow (2008), then his latest film Vengeance conjures the spirit of Jean-Pierre Melville, with its noirish existentialism, its air of heroic futility, and its interest in the cool…
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The Man On The Train (L’Homme du Train) (2002)
The Man On The Train first published by DailyInfo To the British, train travel represents expense, frustration and delay, but Patrice Leconte’s The Man On The Train (L’Homme du Train) exploits what locomotion has come to symbolise for the rest of the world: a doorway to all kinds of transgressive possibilities, where strangers can meet, the norms…