One Night... A Train

One Night... A Train (French: Un soir, un train) is a 1968 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux, starring Yves Montand and Anouk Aimée. It tells the story of Mathias, a professor of linguistics at a university where the students have lively discussions about Flemish nationalism and morality. During a train ride, the French-speaking woman who Mathias lives with disappears and he goes looking for her in an unknown city. The film is based on the 1950 novel De trein der traagheid by Johan Daisne.^[1]

One Night... A Train
Directed by	André Delvaux
Screenplay by	André Delvaux
Based on	De trein der traagheid by Johan Daisne
Produced by	Mag Bodard
Cinematography	Ghislain Cloquet
Edited by	Suzanne Baron
Music by	Frédéric Devreese
Release date	1968 (1968)
Running time	86 minutes
Countries	Belgium France
Languages	Dutch French

Cast

• Yves Montand as Mathias
• Anouk Aimée as Anne
• Adriana Bogdan as Moira
• Hector Camerlynck as Hernhutter
• François Beukelaers as Val
• Michael Gough as Jeremiah
• Senne Rouffaer as Elckerlyc
• Domien De Gruyter as Werner
• Jan Peré as Henrik

Reception

Aurélien Ferenczi of Télérama wrote in 2009: "The cleverness of the film is how it finds unusual visual equivalents to classic themes of 60s auteur cinema—at the heart, we are very close to Antonioni. Yves Montand and Anouk Aimée are terrific, and One Night... A Train is perhaps, quite simply, its director's best film."^[2]

Box office

According to Fox records the film required $1,650,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made only $525,000, so made a loss for the studio.^[3]