Trans-Europ-Express (1966)

Directed by

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Genre

thriller film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

15

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of filmmakers ride a train and brainstorm a story about a cocaine smuggler and a prostitute. Their movie idea gets acted out on screen but keeps mixing with their own journey and commentary.

metaexperimentalplayfulfragmentedcerebraldetachedoffbeatambiguous

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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