Irons, are sprinkled through the movie to add a semblance of intellectual heft. His quotations, spoken in voice-over by Mr. “Night Train to Lisbon,” directed by Bille August (“Pelle the Conqueror”), was adapted from a philosophical novel by the oft-quoted Swiss author Pascal Mercier. Irons’s buttoned-up performance matches a screenplay (by Greg Latter and Ulrich Herrmann) in which most of the action remains off screen. Irons voices his thoughts in a tone of sepulchral weariness that contradicts the character’s supposed awakening. Raimund is as parched and pedantic a creature as T. Impulsively abandoning his comfortable post as a teacher of classical studies in Bern, Switzerland, he travels to Lisbon. Irons, leading a prestigious cast speaking English in an indecipherable mishmash of accents, Raimund undergoes a late midlife crisis. Early in “Night Train to Lisbon,” Raimund Gregorius ( Jeremy Irons), a stuffy academic, remarks that his wife left him because she found him boring.
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