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Transsiberian
7:30 - Somerville Theatre
111 minutes
Directed by: Brad Anderson
East Coast Premiere
The connection between cinema storytelling and
trains is timeless. Train travel evokes a certain
old-world mystique--a sense of foreignness coupled
with nostalgia. The possibility of intrigue looms, as
strangers are crowded into small, claustrophobic quarters. The legendary Transsiberrian Railway is the
longest track in the world and serves as the only overland route that completely spans Russia. This arduous,
week-long journey, traversing two continents, provides the backdrop for a taut new thriller from director
Brad Anderson (THE MACHINIST; SESSION 9; NEXT STOP WONDERLAND.)
A married American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), board the train in Beijing
after participating in a church-sponsored program to aid children in China. When it reaches the Russian
border, their four-berth compartment gains two more passengers: flirtatious, sly Spaniard Carlos (Eduardo
Noriega), and stony-faced, enigmatic American Abby (Kate Mara). The two couples mingle and carouse as the
train heaves through the bleak, lifeless Siberian landscape toward Moscow. Jessie begins to suspect that
Carlos and Abby are other than what they appear to be when she is left alone with them after Roy misses
the train at a routine stop. After pragmatic, hard-nosed, narcotics inspector Grinko (Ben Kingsley) embarks,
Jessie's suspicion that Carlos and Abby are
engaged in nefarious dealings is confirmed.
Jessie's and Roy's lives begin to derail as
machinations surge and their own
less-than-model pasts are revealed.
TRANSSIBERIAN is a daring, high-speed ride
across a panorama of moral impediments and
deception. Complex and intelligently written,
this contemporary update of the train-thriller
genre would do Hitchcock proud.
7:30 - Somerville Theatre
111 minutes
Directed by: Brad Anderson
East Coast Premiere
The connection between cinema storytelling and
trains is timeless. Train travel evokes a certain
old-world mystique--a sense of foreignness coupled
with nostalgia. The possibility of intrigue looms, as
strangers are crowded into small, claustrophobic quarters. The legendary Transsiberrian Railway is the
longest track in the world and serves as the only overland route that completely spans Russia. This arduous,
week-long journey, traversing two continents, provides the backdrop for a taut new thriller from director
Brad Anderson (THE MACHINIST; SESSION 9; NEXT STOP WONDERLAND.)
A married American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), board the train in Beijing
after participating in a church-sponsored program to aid children in China. When it reaches the Russian
border, their four-berth compartment gains two more passengers: flirtatious, sly Spaniard Carlos (Eduardo
Noriega), and stony-faced, enigmatic American Abby (Kate Mara). The two couples mingle and carouse as the
train heaves through the bleak, lifeless Siberian landscape toward Moscow. Jessie begins to suspect that
Carlos and Abby are other than what they appear to be when she is left alone with them after Roy misses
the train at a routine stop. After pragmatic, hard-nosed, narcotics inspector Grinko (Ben Kingsley) embarks,
Jessie's suspicion that Carlos and Abby are
engaged in nefarious dealings is confirmed.
Jessie's and Roy's lives begin to derail as
machinations surge and their own
less-than-model pasts are revealed.
TRANSSIBERIAN is a daring, high-speed ride
across a panorama of moral impediments and
deception. Complex and intelligently written,
this contemporary update of the train-thriller
genre would do Hitchcock proud.
Ben Kingsley is in Massachusetts shooting ‘Ashecliffe’ with director
Martin Scorsese. Last night he dropped by the Somerville Theatre for a
screening of ‘Transsiberian,’ the motion picture he made with director
Brad Anderson. The thriller, about murder on the Transsiberian Express,
was the opening night offering at the sixth annual Independent Film
Festival of Boston. Transsiberia debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in
January. The movie, which also stars Emily Mortimer and Woody
Harrelson, took several years to make.
Martin Scorsese. Last night he dropped by the Somerville Theatre for a
screening of ‘Transsiberian,’ the motion picture he made with director
Brad Anderson. The thriller, about murder on the Transsiberian Express,
was the opening night offering at the sixth annual Independent Film
Festival of Boston. Transsiberia debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in
January. The movie, which also stars Emily Mortimer and Woody
Harrelson, took several years to make.
