Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | UK
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who’s accompanied by a community-service volunteer who’s assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.