Advantages of Travelling by Train

Advantages of Travelling by Train

Truth is overrated. Reality stinks.

Directed by Aritz Moreno

Produced by Morena Films, Logical Pictures

2019104 min6.5 / 10

A darkly comic psychological thriller about a woman escaping her troubled marriage who encounters an enigmatic stranger on a train, blending paranoia and unreliable perception.

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.

Questions people ask

  • Is Advantages of Travelling by Train scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Does Advantages of Travelling by Train end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 80% of films.

  • Is Advantages of Travelling by Train sad? Yes. More sad than 75% of films.

  • Is Advantages of Travelling by Train easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is Advantages of Travelling by Train violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity54

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise50

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love45

How much audiences actually like it

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