Top billed cast

1. 

   Ethan Hawke

   Jesse

2. 

   Julie Delpy

   Céline

3. 

   Andrea Eckert

   Wife on Train

4. 

   Hanno Pöschl

   Husband on Train

5. 

   Karl Bruckschwaiger

   Guy on Bridge

6. 

   Tex Rubinowitz

   Guy on Bridge

7. 

   Erni Mangold

   Palm Reader

8. 

   Dominik Castell

   Street Poet

9. 

   Haymon Maria Buttinger

   Bartender

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-07-03

After about five minutes of this, I was resigned to watching a reimagining of "Brief Encounter" (1945) and started to give up. Then, it began to take an altogether different tack as we meet a young and fairly penniless American "Jesse" (Ethan Hawke) who starts chatting with "Celine" (Julie Delpy) on a train journey and there is a visually striking chemistry on display pretty much from the start as their conversation quite quickly progresses from the idle chit chat to more substantial matters of life, love and the pursuit of happiness. He has a flight from Vienna next morning and without the ca...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,500,000.00

Revenue
$5,987,386.00

Keywords

• talking
• soulmates
• walking
• austria
• vienna, austria
• semi autobiographical
• playful
• cliché