Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train

• 1998
• France
• 2h 2min
• 15

• Directed by: Patrice Chereau
• Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pascal Gregory, Charles Berling

The minor painter, Jean-Baptiste Emmerich, has died. Despite living in Paris, his dying wish is to be buried in Limoges, and so catching the train to the funeral are a mixture of the dead man's friends, lovers, students and relatives. Chereau's first feature since La Reine Margot is a fiercely intense, yet cathartic melodrama which, with every character suffering some form of a personal crisis, keeps veering off in unexpected directions. Brilliantly shot, Those Who Love Me … is also marked by a host of vivid, heartfelt performances.