ROMAN DE GARE

**Ends Thursday, July 31st**

"A satisfying, intricate thriller from director Claude Lelouch ... a brilliant piece of construction. It's the smartest and best suspense movie you're likely to see for a while." - Mick LaSalle, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

ROMAN DE GARE (which roughly translates as “railway station novel,” i.e. an entertaining novel to read while traveling on vacation) finds celebrated French filmmaker Claude Lelouch (director of A MAN AND A WOMAN, a worldwide smash and winner of the 1966 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar) indulging in murderous hijinks and literary puzzles played out against exotic locales, in this slickly entertaining and suspenseful romantic thriller about fate and fatal secrets.

As the film opens, popular crime novelist Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) finds herself at the receiving end of a police interrogation for two murders. We then learn about the escape of an actual serial killer known as "The Magician," who may already be lurking on the roads leading out of Paris. The road is where we find Huguette (Audrey Dana, nominated for a 2008 Cesar Award as Most Promising Actress), a high-strung hairdresser who is soon abandoned by her enraged fiancé at a highway service station. Huguette is rescued by the unassuming Pierre (the great Dominique Pinon, rubber-faced star of Diva), who may or may not actually be the ghost writer responsible for Judith Ralitzer's success. Pierre pretends to be Huguette's fiancé so that her provincial parents and alienated daughter will think that Huguette has put her life in order. But even as Pierre wins the affection of Huguette and her family, his reliance on magic tricks may hint at a much darker secret. And when Pierre is reunited with the celebrity-absorbed Ralitzer, his intention to come out from her shadow and be his own author may force the star to construct a novel demise for her servant.

Taking advantage of a superb cast and gorgeous French locations, Lelouch's veteran touch deftly juggles ROMAN DE GARE's tricky plotting, startling surprises and multiple layers of mystery and romance, creating the arthouse equivalent of a great beach read.

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