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Too much of everything

the audience applauded

Fresh and Exciting

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Sadly, I can't agree with most people who find this film to be Hitchcockesque in its representation of a thriller.To say this would be to say that your Jaguar is just like a Mercedes. They might both be fine cars, but they are in no way alike.The really quite simplistic plot travels at a slow and in many ways, inexplicable pace. There is little tension built up, and, for the most part, little mystery to be found.However, don't take any of this to be a retrograde description.The various small character subplots and interactions are wonderful. The whole journey has a quite haunting feel to it, which I find I am at loss to explain, because if I analyse the film, there is no real reason to this feeling. And yet, there it is.The beautiful and mysterious Lucyna Winnicka is utterly mesmerising.In so many ways this film shouldn't work with anything like the power it achieves, but somehow it does. If it captures you in the way it has me, then it will stay with you long after the event, from the strange individual passengers right down to the oh so ethereal soundtrack.I am without explanation, but I truly hope it gives you the feeling of something wonderful it gave me.

SPOILER ALERT -- SPOILER ALERT -- I realize I'm in an extreme minority, but I found this movie mind-numbingly tedious and boring. I've enjoyed lots of "artistic films" over the years, including Bergman and Fellini, but this was just awful. To equate people sitting and staring at each other with some sort of "art" is just absurd. Almost nothing happens in this movie, the characters are mostly unlikable and annoying, and there's not even an ounce of suspense (similar to Alfred Hitchcock? give me a break!). Maybe I just don't get Polish art films. I certainly didn't get this one. What actually does happen? A guy wearing dark glasses boards a train. A girl is in his compartment and refuses to leave it. He tries to have her kicked out, then suddenly changes his mind and lets her stay, even though he "wanted to be alone." For most of the movie, these two characters sit and stare at each other, or mutter a few words at each other. Someone else on the train has read a newspaper account of a recent murder, so I guess we're supposed to say, "Hey, gee, could one of these people be the murderer?" Why? No reason at all. For a really long time nothing else happens (of any importance). SPOILER ALERT * * * Then, suddenly, late in the movie, the train stops unexpectedly and a bunch of cops board the train, looking for "the murderer." Why? Don't know. They seem to think the murderer is in the compartment where the girl and the guy are. So they find him and take him into custody. But the girl says some other man originally had that compartment. The cops immediately decide to search for the "other man." This other man runs. They chase him. He jumps off of the train and everybody chases him. They catch him. Movie ends, right? Not on your life. Everybody gets back on the train, and again nothing happens. At this point I was tearing out my hair by the roots -- WILL THIS EVER END??? After nothing else happens for a while, the train stops and everyone gets off. The End. I absolutely do not understand how anyone could've watched this movie and been anything but bored out of their minds.

Night Train is the first film I've seen from highly rated Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz and it's a highly impressive film too! The film takes on a Hitchcockian style, although Kawalerowicz' directorial style is more sombre than Hitchcock's and the film straddles the line between thriller/mystery and drama excellently. As the title suggests, the film is set aboard a train, and the director really makes good use of this setting as the claustrophobia of the vehicle is constantly imposed, and other elements such as the chance of meeting strangers on a train and the idea of a lot of different people being together in one place also come into play. The film focuses on Jerzy; a mysterious man who boards a train on course for the Baltic coast. It soon becomes apparent that the man has a high need for privacy, and this is disrupted by Martha, a woman who he finds in his compartment. At first he seems keen to get rid of her, but later reluctantly agrees to let her stay. It later transpires that the police are on the hunt for a man who murdered hid wife...and Jerzy finds himself under suspicion.The film is stylishly shot and Kawalerowicz' style reminded me somewhat of the "Nouvelle Vogue" style that was popular in France around the early sixties. The black and white picture helps to impose a dark atmosphere on the film and this in turn helps to build the mystery surrounding the central character. The characters themselves are all interesting and the way that the director feeds us more information about each one as the film progresses is well done and helps to keep the audience interested in the film. The acting courtesy of Leon Niemczyk and Lucyna Winnicka in the central roles is excellent and both performers give their characters plenty of credibility. The murderer plot often feels like something of a spare wheel to the other things going on in the film, but I think this was intended as by not putting the full focus on this plot, more time is given to developing the characters. The results of this plot are stunning, however, and the sequence that finally sees the murderer chased down is well shot and highly memorable. As the film winds down, Jerzy Kawalerowicz gives us an interesting take on the twist ending and this helps to separate Night Train further from the majority of other thrillers. Overall, this is a fascinating little thriller and comes highly recommended!

A man named Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) is taking a Night Train along the Baltic coast, he wears dark sunglasses and by his body language we can tell he wants to be alone and to this end, he books a sleeping compartment all to himself, .But on entering his compartment he finds a young blonde woman named Marta (Lucyna Winnicka) occupying it, she refuses to leave even when the train inspector is called, but when the inspector threatens her with the police, Jerzy says forget about it and he lets her stay, suspicious behaviour as the very overcrowded train is awash with talk of the local murderer who is on the run from the police, Marta also seems to have something to hide and is being chased by a young suitor travelling in standard classic, in a train full of different character, could the killer be on board?Jerzy calls a truce with Marta and soon their conversation begins to open up, a bond gradually grows between the two but is interrupted when the police hunting for the killer, board the train in a remote area and immediately arrest Jerzy, can he prove his innocence on the remaining journey? Jerzy Kawalerowicz perhaps best known as the director of the superb tale of possession, Matka Joanna od aniolów (1961) here produces a Hitchcockian type thriller set on a train with equally successful results. Set to a jazzy score Andrzej Trzaskowski, which adds immensely to the atmosphere while also perfectly suiting the motion of the train, we are gradually introduced to many of the different characters on board, a large group on a pilgrimage, the desperately flirtatious wife of a Polish solicitor, intent on getting some attention from whoever will listen, the young priest travelling with his elderly Monsiegnor, we even get to know the train staff intimately. Jan Laskowski's cinematography is beautiful and captures the claustrophobia of the overcrowded train, but yet still retains a sense of movement in a confined space. The killer being chased at dawn across cold open fields by all on board is a highlight, it finishes with the killer's capture in a rundown graveyard. The films ending is quite apt and somewhat downbeat as all the travellers return to their own lives at their destination, after the excitement of the previous night.