Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998, France)

Viviane An atmospheric relationships film by Patrice Chéreau. Jean-Baptiste, an artist and sculptor, has died, and he has asked in his will that all his friends and wives and lovers of both sexes to attend the funeral in Limoges, where his family have a shoe manufacturing business. On the train journey all these people act out their relationship difficulties and create new ones.


In the family circle After the funeral there's a lengthy wake at which things get even more personal. Vincent Perez plays Viviane, who is a transsexual, and her character gets a lengthy and more or less sympathetic role in the last third of the film.


In the bath In a bathroom scene we see that Viviane is pre-operative.

There's a lot of hand-held camera work and background noise and cross-talk, so the film isn't the easiest for the audience. The film has been released in an English language version, Those who love me can take the train.

HF January 2001


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