A fleeting encounter in a train station draws a withdrawn young man into a shadowy world of desire and danger. As obsession deepens, innocence destroyed, and an irreversible transformation begins.
Acting
Anglade's trembling hunger is almost too real to watch.
Direction
Chéreau stages desire like a slow-motion car crash.
Cinematography
Neon-soaked nights that reek of sweat and regret.
Director
Patrice Chéreau
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Henri
Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Jean Lerman
Roland Bertin
Bosmans
Lisa Kreuzer
Elisabeth
Claude Berri
Client
Hammou Graïa
Young Man at the Train Station
Gérard Desarthe
Crying Man
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Henri's Father
Annick Alane
Henri's Mother
Sophie Edmond
Henri's Sister
Marie Verdi
Roland Chalosse
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Boy at the Train Station
Charly Chemouny
Young Hustler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the AIDS crisis, the film's sexual danger reads entirely differently now—once transgressive, now elegiac.
Chéreau adapted this from Marguerite Duras' fragmentary novel, explaining the narrative gaps he refuses to fill.
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