Trans-Europ-Express

Trans-Europe-Express (DVD)
A film by Alain Robbe-Grillet

This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French new wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant (Amour, The Conformist) and Marie-France Pisier (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Breakfast ).

Trintignant plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans-Europ-Express. Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police, three filmmakers (who are also on the train making a film about drug traffickers) and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring Pisier being bound and subjected to Trintignant's masochistic will

Originally banned by the BBC for scenes of sexual sadism and bondage, Trans-Europ-Express was written and directed by ground-breaking and daring filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, best known for his experimental novels, and for writing Alain Resnais Last Year in Marienbad.

Special features

• Fully uncut and uncensored version
• Video introduction by Catherine Robbe-Grillet (2013, 6 mins)
• Filmed interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet by Frederic Taddei (2013, 32 mins)
• Exclusive, full-length audio commentary by cult film authority Tim Lucas