Film : "Roman de Gare:" Thrills and guessing games  By Brooks
Robards Published: June 11, 2009  Share | |  It's particularly
appropriate that French director Claude Lelouch used a pseudonym
for his thriller, "Roman de Gare," the Martha's Vineyard Film
Society offering at Katharine Cornell Theatre this Saturday.
None of the characters in the film seem to be who you think they
are at first.  Roman de Gare, Martha's Vineyard  The director
built his reputation in 1966 with the Oscar-winning, universally
acclaimed "Un Homme et une Femme," but he has not fared so well
with critics recently. That explains the pseudonym, Hervé
Picard, which he discarded once the film arrived at the Cannes
Film Festival. "Roman de Gare," which translates idiomatically
as "station novel" (its American title is "Crossed Tracks"), is
as frivolous and fun as its title, a masterly mix of genres and
moods.  The movie opens in a French interrogation room, where a
popular novelist, Judith Ralitzer (the elegant Fanny Ardent) is
being questione