What a piece of luck, a polar festival in my own town movie theatre (hanx) in the west suburb of Paris. And I finally rediscover the very first Costa-Gavras movie, a restored masterpiece in the way of shooting and editing, so fast-paced and inventive thanks to the cinematographer Jean Tournier. Jean Tournier worked again with Costa-Gavras on his second movie, "Un Homme de Trop", even more fast-paced than his first, and still with fabulous Michel Piccoli as the very special man. In both movies, the cast is terrific, but much more tense in "Un Homme de Trop". My favorite scenes in "Compartiment Tueurs" are : in the train, with Piccoli, and the last part when cops begin to understand, it gets faster and faster, fasten your seat belts. But my top favorite scenes are with the killer : I hadn't seen this movie for a long time and had since discovered Gialli (I've seen around 300 titles). So I got a shock when I first saw the killer in black leather, seeing him again and again : total giallo style. And what about the last scene, seen also in a giallo. And the car chase, like the killer scenes, are so similar to a master of gialli and crimi, I'll let you guess.
Thank you, Sir Costa-Gavras.
Thank you, Sir Costa-Gavras.