The Girl on the Train
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Téchiné brings the same cool, observant restraint to a public scandal, following how a young woman’s private uncertainty reverberates through family, media and institutions.
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Why this pick
Téchiné brings the same cool, observant restraint to a public scandal, following how a young woman’s private uncertainty reverberates through family, media and institutions.
Why this pick
A controlled, unsettling true-crime drama focused on the gap between appearances and hidden lives, with a similarly unsensational approach to moral ambiguity.
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A quiet French crime drama where class, money and concealment tighten around a young outsider; its tension grows through observation rather than spectacle.
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Though more intimate, it shares the focus on a woman reassessing a damaging relationship and the gradual, emotionally complex uncovering of what lay beneath it.
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This sober French judicial drama suits the appeal of real-case ambiguity, family fractures and the uneasy sense that official narratives may not settle everything.
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01 / THE STORY
Agnès Le Roux, a young independent woman, returns to Nice in 1976 to have a new start in her life after a failed marriage. Her mother, Renée Le Roux, a wealthy widow, is fighting with other shareholders for control of the Palais de la Méditerranée, a casino on the French Rivera. The casino is facing difficulties and in one night, it loses five million francs to professional gamblers who very likely tampered a game.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Renée Le Roux

Maurice Agnelet