THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
La fille du RER

France, 2009, 35mm, feature
105 minutes
French with English subtitles
Director: André Téchiné

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Jeanne (Emilie Dequenne) lives in a house in the suburbs of Paris with her mother Louise (Catherine Deneuve), who makes a living as a babysitter. Jeanne spends her days looking for work without much conviction and eventually moves in with her boyfriend.  When Louise reads a help wanted ad on the Internet, she believes that fate has intervened, and she moves to get her daughter a job with a famous attorney she knew in her youth.  Jeanne's world and that of the Jewish attorney are ligh tyears apart, but on a collision path because of an incredible lie that she is about to tell, a lie that was at the heart of one of the most highly publicized and politicized news items in France in recent years.

CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of France and Alliance Française de Washington