Trans-Europ-Express
La Cinémathèque Française
51 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris
Cycle: Histoire permanente du cinéma / Les filmsRoom: GFVersion: VOFormat: 35 mmView screening infoView film info
Thursday, April 9
Trans-Europ-Express is a 1966 experimental 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, at the time an international rail network in Europe. A frame story shows a creative team devising a film plot during a train journey to Antwerp, intercut with a film-within-a-film about a novice cocaine smuggler and a prostitute that enacts their outline imperfectly.
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