NEW YORK -- "Roman De Gare," a thriller by Claude Lelouch, features murder, duplicity, romance and revenge along with enough red herrings and plot reversals to intrigue suspense fans. By Richard James ...

You will remember Lelouch from his 1966 mega-hit “A Man and a Woman,” a medley of music and montage about a racecar driver and a widow, which took a critical drubbing (and implanted in the memory ...

Roman de Gare: Suspense. Starring Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant and Audrey Dana. Directed by Claude Lelouch. In French with English subtitles. (R. 103 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) What do we make ...

There are many, many stories running through Claude Lelouch’s elegant French thriller Roman de Gare. The challenge is deciding which one to believe. You could ...

“What can be more beautiful than a perfect crime?” wonders a novelist in Claude Lelouch’s enticing thriller “Roman de Gare.” It’s an idea explored deliciously in the film, whose veteran director (“A ...

In Roman de Gare, a satisfying, intricate thriller from director Claude Lelouch, Ardant plays a fabulously successful popular novelist, whose elegance and confident stride bespeak membership in an ...

Sometimes, it’s comforting to be in the hands of a master. Simultaneously an homage and sly send-up of Hitchcock’s work, French New Wave vet Claude Lelouch (now 70) lends a confident and deft touch to ...

Sixties art-house standby Claude Lelouch is, as it turns out, alive and well and living in Paris. He’s even directed a new film; the title, Roman de gare, incessantly punned with in the film, ...

Claude Lelouch’s 1966 film A Man and a Woman remains the North Star of romantic French movies. It also remains his obit-leader, since Lelouch has done nothing in the past 42 years to approximate that ...

It’s not the first time I’ve used this quotation, and it certainly won’t be the last: In literature — as in life — characters lie, and they don’t always come clean about it. It’s up to the truly ...

“Roman de Gare” is a cleverly constructed, beautifully acted French picture that’s a thriller in structure, a romance in feel and a twist-filled character study of a very odd little man.