Angelika Film Center
18 W Houston St
212.995.2000
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Roman de Gare
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Apr 25, 2008 – May 23, 2008
Daily
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- Price
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$11.75
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Note: This film also opens at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on Friday, Apr 25.
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure pulp — albeit in the knowing, philosophical way that marks nearly all French film. A flighty beauty gets ditched by her doctor-fiancé in a highway rest area; a hapless stranger (Amelie's Dominique Pinon) offers to drive the damsel; and an acclaimed author anxiously awaits the man and his ghost-writing abilities — all while a serial killer runs rampant in the region. Therein lie all the makings of an excellent thriller, complete with a little rueful wit; no doubt Hollywood will be butchering it into an adaptation apace.
