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ENGAGING THRILLER Dominique Pinon and Audray Dana may be not be the happy couple they seem to be in the crafty pseudonymous Claude Lelouch film Roman de Gare
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Limited Release: Apr 18, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 103 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Dominique Pinon
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

Audray Dana plays a waitress (or is she a hooker?) abandoned by her fiancé; Fanny Ardant plays a popular author who doesn't write her own books; and the fine, squish-faced character actor Dominique Pinon plays a fellow who may be the novelist's ghostwriter (or is he a serial killer?) posing as the fiancé of the waitress/hooker. When first unveiling his enjoyably crafty thriller Roman de Gare — a sly catalog of deceits and a gentle commentary on slippery creativity and desire — the enduring Gallic filmmaker Claude Lelouch took a pseudonym for further obfuscation. B+


Posted Apr 30, 2008
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