Night Train To Lisbon

Swedish director Bille August has made some esteemed films, from Pelle The Conqueror to The Household Of The Spirits, but this Euro-pudding isn’t one of them. August re-teams with Spirits star Jeremy Irons, here a Swiss-lit professor who saves a woman from jumping to her death. It’s the commencement of a plodding tale that sees Irons head to Portugal to uncover details…