A poet. A thief. Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.
In a sleepy French backwater, a train pulls into a deserted station, depositing a lone passenger: a grizzled man in a fringed leather jacket. He looks like a criminal, albeit an ageing criminal, a man who has never before asked questions of life or made deep connections with anybody, arriving for a final showdown, and he is. But within minutes he bumps into a local retired poetry teacher in dapper clothes, a man who looks like someone waiting for something exciting to happen, who appears perfectly settled in his life, and he was. Until now. Suddenly, these two disparate men are about to find, at the very end of the line, an unexpected friendship, an opportunity to look back on their dashed hopes and a magical, momentary chance to explore the road not taken.
Special Agent Matti
The man on the train is Swimming pool without the sex and with some gangsters. There's a good story somewhere in The man on the train but I couldn't quite find it.
M (Low level violence, low level coarse language)
91 minutes (1:13 hours)
Film: 28 August 2003