Trans–Europe–Express
Sep 06, 2008
(Alain Robbe–Grillet, France, 1966, 35mm, 95 min)
This film was banned in the UK on its initial release in 1967. Jean (played by Robbe–Grillet himself) writes a screenplay for a film while on board a Trans–Europe–Express. Jean–Louis Trintignant plays the protagonist of the film–within–the–film–a professional drug–smuggler with sado–masochistic tendencies who gets involved with a prostitute and double agents while commuting between Paris and Antwerp.
“Trans–Europe Express is as challenging and influential today as it was in the 1960s–a key text of the postwar European avant–garde.” – Senses of Cinema