An American film director screening his new film in Budapest meets one of the subjects of that film. What begins as a simple chat over coffee turns into an alternately comic and suspenseful road trip.
An American experimental film director (James Eckhouse) travels to Budapest to screen a film he shot there years before. The morning after the screening, Deutsch meets a man claiming to be one of the subjects of that film. Much younger at the time of filming, the grown up Janos (Barnabas Toth) is upset with the way he was portrayed as a boy. What starts as a simple chat over coffee turns into an alternately comic, creepy, and suspenseful road trip. Filled with moments of Hitchcockian suspense and Paul Auster-like existentialism, The Boy on the Train is a captivating and hypnotic journey through rural stretches of Hungary, as well as a witty treatise on the responsibility artists have to their subjects.Ben Reiser Wisconsin Film Festival
