Based on the best selling novel by Pascal Mercier, Night Train To Lisbon sees critically acclaimed director Billie August (The House of Spirits) bring together a star cast, including Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Melanie Laurent, and Christopher Lee, for an enthralling mystery that spans decades, as Iron's Raimund Grigorius embarks on a life changing quest to discover the truth behind a mysterious author. The below trailer looks absolutely beautiful, and the cast are on top form, unsurprising considering the amount of talent they all process. Check it out below. Released: October 24th ...
- 9/27/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Ride on Time: August and Another Puerile Adaptation
It’s evident that Danish director Bille August favors helming adaptations of challenging novels, though the end result isn’t always praiseworthy, such as his infamous 1993 adaptation of Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits, which rankled many for its brazen casting of white actors in expressly Latin source material (though this was only one of many issues in the film). August returns with a cast of many international colors for an adaptation of Pascal Mercier’s novel, Night Train to Lisbon, and the result is a gratingly stilted endeavor, a muddled miasma of vapid, historical based intrigue that dilutes its own specific political angles with its pan-European blandness.
Raimond Gregarius (Jeremy Irons) lives a dull existence as a classical studies teacher in Bern, Switzerland. One dismal day on his way to work, he saves a young woman (Sarah Buhlmann) about to jump off a bridge.
It’s evident that Danish director Bille August favors helming adaptations of challenging novels, though the end result isn’t always praiseworthy, such as his infamous 1993 adaptation of Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits, which rankled many for its brazen casting of white actors in expressly Latin source material (though this was only one of many issues in the film). August returns with a cast of many international colors for an adaptation of Pascal Mercier’s novel, Night Train to Lisbon, and the result is a gratingly stilted endeavor, a muddled miasma of vapid, historical based intrigue that dilutes its own specific political angles with its pan-European blandness.
Raimond Gregarius (Jeremy Irons) lives a dull existence as a classical studies teacher in Bern, Switzerland. One dismal day on his way to work, he saves a young woman (Sarah Buhlmann) about to jump off a bridge.
- 12/14/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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