Tickets

2005

1h 46m

Comedy

Drama

List

71%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

76%

500+ Ratings

Audience Score

This anthology film follows the tales of three different sets of people on the same train. While an aging Italian scholar (Carlo Delle Piane) thinks about a beautiful woman (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) who assisted him during recent travels, a former soldier (Filippo Trojano) is sent on an unpleasant assignment. Elsewhere on the train, a group of Scottish soccer fans have an unusual encounter with a desperate Albanian family who have been avoiding the train's authorities.

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the first half of the film started nicely but it didn't actually go anywhere, for some reason 3 young Scottish screaming lads occupied the second half with a very weak migrant theme as a backdrop, the end

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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A compelling look at the lives of normal people on a moving train: while the first story is the weak link and the second lacks a more satisfying conclusion, the movie hits the mark with the last one and proves to be a delightful omnibus film made by three great directors.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Thoroughly enjoyable ride...

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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5 stars for the first episode that couldnt better than that ...a piece of absolute poetic genius and the other two r good but not as perfect as the first one ....

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

I like this movie. Enjoyable beginning to end. There is no overall story arc, so don't look for that. Just travelers, on a train. Not a travelogue, not at all: a journey of personal interactions. Vividly portrayed, realistic, convincing. Not lacking for drama though!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Ermanno Olmi

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Director

Ken Loach

Director

Carlo Delle Piane

Professor

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

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Rated: 4/5

Sep 30, 2006

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Fernando F. Croce

Slant Magazine

More benign than Three...Extremes and less uneven than Eros, Tickets offers a triptych of slender yet genuine delights.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 27, 2006

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

These type of portmanteau films seldom work out as well as does this one.

Rated: B+

Feb 16, 2011

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Anton Bitel

Eye for Film

Olmi's first piece is certainly the most substantial and subtle of the film's three episodes, but it is also strangely the least engaging, with a pace that recalls the endless delays of British Rail rather than the more efficient services on the continent

Aug 10, 2007

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Worth cherishing.

Nov 3, 2006

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

full review in Greek

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 3, 2006

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Synopsis

This anthology film follows the tales of three different sets of people on the same train. While an aging Italian scholar (Carlo Delle Piane) thinks about a beautiful woman (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) who assisted him during recent travels, a former soldier (Filippo Trojano) is sent on an unpleasant assignment. Elsewhere on the train, a group of Scottish soccer fans have an unusual encounter with a desperate Albanian family who have been avoiding the train's authorities.

Director: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
Screenwriter: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Paul Laverty
Production Co: Fandango, Medusa Produzione
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Albanian
Release Date (DVD): Sep 26, 2006
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital