The life of Latin and ancient languages professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons,The Man in the Iron Mask) is changed when he saves a young woman from jumping to her death. When she flees, he is left with her red coat, train tickets to Lisbon and a book by Portuguese author Amadeu do Prado. The incident and discovery affects Raimund, so much so he abandons his life to dedicate himself to the author and the book. Co-stars Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), Jack Huston (TV's Boardwalk Empire) and screen legends Christopher Lee and Charlotte Rampling.
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Thank heavens for Jeremy Irons. There are few other actors who could glue together this plodding literary adaptation with the naturally engaging gravitas that Irons brings to the screen. He plays Raimund Gregorius, a self-declared boring professor living in grim, grey Bern who surprises himself by impulsively catching a train to sunny Lisbon in pursuit of a shadowy author.
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[The] execution fails to live up to its superlative cast. August's film struggles to marry the story's two timeframes with the narrative leapfrogging back and forth.
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Rather like its central Jeremy Irons character: a well-meaning but inescapably dull looker-on of life who is curious about drama, passion, poetry and revolution...
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Take the last train to Clarksville, the midnight train to Georgia -- anything but this wheezing locomotive.
Full reviewNight Train to Lisbon is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and SBS On Demand and Beamafilm and Prime Video Store.
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