Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Pascal Parmentier, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Edith Scob,
Plot: A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
Murder, robbery and paranormal activity: three new releases
Three recent releases spanning nine decades offer radically different viewing experiences, from James Whale’s pre-Code courtroom drama The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933), rife with bourgeois misogyny, to Patrice Leconte’s Man on the […]