Product Description

Brilliantly entertaining and frequently hilarious, 'Tickets' invites you to climb aboard a trans-European express for three interwoven tales of love, chance and sacrifice. The journey proves unexpectedly eventful for several passengers - three boisterous and devoted Celtic fans on their way to the football match of their dreams; a young man assigned to mind a very demanding older woman; and a businessman who finds himself spellbound by a beautiful PR girl. Directed by three award-winning filmmakers - Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach - these spiritedly free -wheeling stories hurtle along to a rousing and jubilant conclusion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22476 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-04-24
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English, Italian
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Synopsis
Three stories are interconnected on a train as it travels from Austria to Rome. This one journey marks a change for a veteran businessman, a young man and three Scottish football supporters as their lives are transformed by the experience.

Customer Reviews

Trans Europe Express
(or "All Roads Lead To Rome" )

"Tickets" is an intriguing film. It is set entirely on a train travelling from Innsbruck to Rome with three vaguely separate portions of the film directed by three different people. However "Tickets" is a coherent whole of a film and not three discrete episodes like ,say, Kieslowski's "Dekalog" and "Three Colours" films, with which it has much in common. Watching "Tickets" is a bit like watching a reality TV programme; the participants are unknowns, the dialogue is realistic and often seems improvised ,the environment is suffocating and cameras are everywhere. The three main strands of the film concern the reflections ,observations and philanthropy of a pharmaceutical consultant heading home by train after missing his flight, the frustrations of a young man escorting an elderly widow to a memorial service and the fractious relationship between a trio of foul-mouthed Glasgow Celtic supporters and a family of Albanian refugees. "Tickets" is a lot like a play and as in that art form there is a lot of emphasis placed on detailed characterisation ,character development and interpersonal relationships. I suppose the train and the travellers symbolise the New Europe; a hotchpotch of nationalities and classes all mixed together with little in common bar the positive human attributes of love, altruism and generosity which ,historically ,have always helped to keep the "show on the road" . "Tickets" highlights these unifying features through it's characters very well. For long periods nothing much of interest happens in "Tickets" ,but this does have the effect of helping the viewer to feel more like a voyeur as the film simulates accurately the passivity and tedium inherent in a long train journey. "Tickets" is an unusual film and several of the little dramatic vignettes contained within it were excellent , with my favourite one being the irritable exchanges between the Celtic fans and the Albanians.