Last Year When the Train Passed By

Name: Last Year When the Train Passed by (L'An dernier quand le train passait)
Genre: Short
Released: 2019-02-23
Duration: 17 min
Rating: 6.9

Original title: Last Year When the Train Passed by (L'An dernier quand le train passait)

2018
17m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

199

YOUR RATING

Last Year When the Train Passed By (2018)

Short

"What were you doing while I took this photo when the train passed through your house last year?" Carrying a picture taken in the train a year ago, the director comes to the same spot, askin... Read all"What were you doing while I took this photo when the train passed through your house last year?" Carrying a picture taken in the train a year ago, the director comes to the same spot, asking those who appeared in it the question. Usually, the answer is negative. In a year, thing... Read all"What were you doing while I took this photo when the train passed through your house last year?" Carrying a picture taken in the train a year ago, the director comes to the same spot, asking those who appeared in it the question. Usually, the answer is negative. In a year, things have changed, but time was captured on film and the memories were sealed in it.

Director
- Pang-Chuan Huang
Writer
- Pang-Chuan Huang

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

199

YOUR RATING

Director
- Pang-Chuan Huang
Writer
- Pang-Chuan Huang

1User review

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 wins & 8 nominations total

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Featured review

7/10

A Humanistic Journey Wrapped Up In Such Short Duration

Thought of sharing this for a long time and finally doing it after a conversation with a friend who shared about her recent train journey. She had clicked pictures of illuminated windows of the passing train, houses and random strangers and the visuals from this short film was running in my mind. I asked her if she can recollect what was the person doing in the picture and what was the first thing she saw?

I decided to revisit this and it was so much better on a rewatch. I connected the images clicked by my friend to the narration of this short. It was a beautiful repurposing of the images and the unspoken emotion like the characters who remember the moment or let it slip away. The idea to make this a story is spectacular and director Huang Pang-Chuan manages to immerse the viewer on an humanistic journey and it will confront you from the closest distance you have ever experienced. In fact, this is not a movie but a journey that anyone who engages will not forget about it.