Tren nocturno a lisboa movie#
As the movie awkwardly boomerangs between past and present, most of what we see and hear is laborious exposition. The movie proceeds as a historical detective story that intersperses Raimund’s investigation with lengthy flashbacks to a past in which we meet the young Amadeu (Jack Huston), a charismatic member of the resistance to the dictatorship of António Salazar.Īlthough these scenes present ample opportunities for action, suspense and melodrama, the characters rarely come to life. Once in Portugal, he looks up the author visits his severe sister, Adriana (Charlotte Rampling) and learns that Amadeu died in 1974 and that only 100 copies of his book were printed. Raimund’s curiosity is aroused by what he reads, and he boards the train. He brings her to one of his classes, where she accidentally leaves her coat in a pocket is a book by the Portuguese doctor and poet Amadeu de Prado, along with a train ticket to Lisbon. Raimund’s odyssey begins when, by chance, he meets a young woman who is about to leap from a bridge to her death. Knowledge of mortality capers around us like a brittle paper ribbon that barely touches our skin.” “In youth we live as if we were immortal. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place we stay there, even though we go away,” goes another. “The fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be,” goes one. But these mutterings are too disconnected and abstract to register as profound insights by a man in the process of self-discovery. Irons, are sprinkled through the movie to add a semblance of intellectual heft. His quotations, spoken in voice-over by Mr. “Night Train to Lisbon,” directed by Bille August (“Pelle the Conqueror”), was adapted from a philosophical novel by the oft-quoted Swiss author Pascal Mercier. Irons’s buttoned-up performance matches a screenplay (by Greg Latter and Ulrich Herrmann) in which most of the action remains off screen.
Irons voices his thoughts in a tone of sepulchral weariness that contradicts the character’s supposed awakening. Raimund is as parched and pedantic a creature as T. Impulsively abandoning his comfortable post as a teacher of classical studies in Bern, Switzerland, he travels to Lisbon. Irons, leading a prestigious cast speaking English in an indecipherable mishmash of accents, Raimund undergoes a late midlife crisis. Early in “Night Train to Lisbon,” Raimund Gregorius ( Jeremy Irons), a stuffy academic, remarks that his wife left him because she found him boring.
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