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An elderly train-driver sits in his lonely living room, which is got up as a surreal sort of clinic. His thoughts are summarized on a photo next to him. Passing trains are the Pavlovian stimulus that recall to his mind events from the past. With the help of various rather literary stylistic devices - the use of windows, mirrors and clocks - the protagonist is manoeuvred into a dream state, the nightmare of all right-minded train-drivers: the train stops. The image duplicates his feverish exertions, and his jerky movements hurt our eyes. As the window-pane explodes in a firework there remains only the breathing of the despairing train-driver which seems to be taken over by the unending rhythm.
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Frank van Rossum
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Camera: Daniel Jobin, Editing: J.-Marie Boissonneault, Effects: Miguel Raymond, Sound mixing: J. Crépeau, C. Fatard, Set design: Jean Hazel, Production: Bruno Jobin, Zone Productions, With: Luc Caron
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