Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
John Demetry

Review by John Demetry Patron

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train 1998

★★★★★ Liked

Watched 30 Jan 2023

The primal appeal of The Big Chill given operatic, cinematic largesse through unencumbered Cinemascope as art-hounds-on-the-brink descend upon Limoges for their maestro's funeral, where hetero-couplings get tested, transgender identity confounds then conveys universal longings, and the proposal to live life imaginatively in the age of AIDS for a gay-male love triangle-each actor like marble chiseled by light-climaxes in one of the top 5 most awesome movie endings-an angel's eye view that breaks boundaries and defeats death (R.I.P. Patrice Chereau, whose Those Love Me Can Take the Train (1999), Son frere (2004), and Queen Margot (1994) are the most "me" of movies)

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In the last year, the world lost two of my favorite filmmakers (Patrice Chereau and Alain Resnais) and the best American actor of his generation (Paul Walker). After seeing Chereau's THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE THE TRAIN again tonight at Lincoln Center, I wonder: Will movies ever be this good again?

03/04/2014

[In response to Paper Magazine's List of Best Transgender Films]

Here's 10 better than any on this stupid list (and just off the top of my head): Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (the second greatest gay movie of all time with Vincent Perez's unforgettable trans performance), Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Breakfast on Pluto/The Crying Game, Law of Desire/The Skin I Live In, Dressed to Kill (very Caitlyn Jenner timely... VERY), Orlando, Maladies, Dog Day Afternoon

06/04/2015

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