La fille du RER 2009

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Like Techine's best films, the movie appears to be a story about nothing - until it suddenly becomes a meditation on the vagaries of the human heart. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Techine brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Don't expect any kind of neo-documentary examination of cause and effect. That's not filmmaker Andre Techine's style, and this is one of his most successful films. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Techine glosses over the story's most potent issue: France's complicated relationship with its Jewish community. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Techine has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: At the age of sixty-six, [Techine] approaches the exploits of his characters with a gusto, and a willingness to be led astray, that borders on the adolescent. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: It is Dequenne who holds the film together -- she and Techine's youthful touch, which belies his 66 years. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The film is based on a play, but it is to the director's credit that it never shows the claustrophobic trappings of a proscenium stage. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although the main character's motivations remain largely a matter of conjecture, The Girl on the Train is a compelling piece of cinema. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie seems likely to be about anti-Semitism, but that's more the occasion than the subject. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is Techine's gift -- not just detail, but telling detail; and not just slices of life, but slices as rich as a cassata cake. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection. Read more

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David Fear, Time Out: Techine offers a character study in lieu of context for the similar 2007 hoax that threw the French press into a tizzy, and like many of his best films, this what-if examination works best as an actors' showcase. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers Read more

Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne. Read more

Ella Taylor, Village Voice: For better or worse, there isn't a human experience that French director Andre Techine can resist lathering into a tone poem. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's a well-acted, but frustratingly inconclusive exercise. Read more