Trans-Europ-Express (film)

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Trans-Europ-Express
Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Produced by Samy Halfon
Written by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant
Marie-France Pisier
Nadine Verdier
Christian Barbier
Charles Millot
Daniel Emilfork
Music by Michel Fano
Cinematography Willy Kurant
Editing by Bob Wade
Release dates 1966
Running time 105 minutes
Country Belgium / France
Language French
Trans-Europ-Express is a 1966 film written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie-France Pisier. The title refers to the Trans Europ Express, a former international rail network in Europe.

The film has been variously described as an erotic thriller, a mystery, and a film-within-a-film.[citation needed] Also in the cast were Nadine Verdier, Christian Barbier, Charles Millot, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, and the director. The protagonist is Elias (Trintignant) who is on a dope-running errand from Paris to Antwerp by the train which gives the film its title. The director appears as himself in some sequences which are inter-cut with the action in which Elias is involved. The relationship between Elias and Eva (Marie-France Pisier) involves elements of erotic fantasy.

Screenwriter Robert McKee classifies Trans-Europ-Express as a "nonplot" film, that is, a film that does not tell a story.[1]

The film was released on DVD in 2008 in Italy by Ripley's Home Video and on Blu-Ray in 2014 in the US by Redemption Films.[2]

References

  1. ↑ McKee, Robert (1997). Story: substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting. New York: ReganBooks. p. 57. ISBN 0060391685. 
  2. ↑ "Trans-Europ Express and Successive Slidings of Pleasure Detailed". Blu-ray.com. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014. 

Further reading

  • Gardies, André, comp. (1972) Alain Robbe-Grillet. Paris: Seghers (includes: "documents" & "points de vue", pp. 126-32, 162)

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