TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS - DVD

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 will.

Originally banned by the BBFC 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 post-war novels, and as the writer of Alain Resnais' world cinema classicLast Year in Marienbad.

Special features

• Remastered in High Definition
• New and improved subtitles
• Fully uncut and uncensored presentation
• Filmed introduction by Catherine Robbe-Grillet (2013, 6 mins)
• Filmed interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet by critic Frédéric Taddeï (2007, 32 mins)
• Exclusive, full-length audio commentary by cult film authority Tim Lucas

France | 1967 | black and white | French language, with optional English subtitles | 91 minutes | DVD9 | Original aspect ratio 1.66:1 (16x9 anamorphic) | Dolby Digital mono audio (192kbps) | Cert 15 (contains strong violence and sexual fetish images)| Region 2 DVD