Roman de Gare (2007)

This French thriller (literal translation: Train Station Novel, which has little to do with the plot) stars Dominique Pinon. He has a very long list of credits on imdb, but all I remember him from is Diva (1981), also a French thriller (trés bon), in which he played the scary geek. He is an unlikely-looking leading man, but by the end I was rooting for him. Fanny Ardant co-stars. She, too, has a long list of credits, but I remember more of her work. Ridicule (1997) stands out among them. Like many fine foreign films, Roman de Gare may have been released last year, but here in the boonies, it plays for one week, ending Thursday, at the 3-screen aging "art house." It was a private screening for me today at 3 PM. Tell No One (Ne Le Dis à Personne) (2006) was popular at that theatre this summer, but was complex and hard to follow. This one had twists and turns, all neatly tied up at the end. Speaking of twists and turns, here's a warning for those with motion sickness: the movie opens with footage from a speeding car (that's a camera car, when the camera is attached, as opposed to a picture car, which is onscreen), and later many sequences are shot on a magnifique sailboat. Didn't bother me much.