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Trans-Europ-Express

  • 1966
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
2.2K
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Jean-Louis Trintignant in Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
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A director, producer and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp, where they brainstorm ideas for a film about a greenhorn drug smuggler and a kinky prostitute.A director, producer and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp, where they brainstorm ideas for a film about a greenhorn drug smuggler and a kinky prostitute.A director, producer and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp, where they brainstorm ideas for a film about a greenhorn drug smuggler and a kinky prostitute.

  • Director
    • Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Writer
    • Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Stars
    • Jean-Louis Trintignant
    • Marie-France Pisier
    • Christian Barbier
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    2.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alain Robbe-Grillet
    • Writer
      • Alain Robbe-Grillet
    • Stars
      • Jean-Louis Trintignant
      • Marie-France Pisier
      • Christian Barbier
    • 15User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jean-Louis Trintignant
    Jean-Louis Trintignant
    • Elias…
    Marie-France Pisier
    Marie-France Pisier
    • Eva…
    Christian Barbier
    • Lorentz - the policeman
    Raoul Guylad
    Raoul Guylad
    • An intermediary
    Henri Lambert
    • Inspector
    Paul Louyet
    • Marc
    Charles Millot
    Charles Millot
    • Franck
    Rezy Norbert
    • The concierge
    Gérard Palaprat
    • Le Petit Mathieu
    • (as Gerard Palaprat)
    Catherine Robbe-Grillet
    Catherine Robbe-Grillet
    • Lucette - the script supervisor
    Salkin
    • An intermediary
    Ariane Sapriel
    • A traveller
    Prima Symphony
    • The stripper
    Clotilde Vanesco
    • Cabaret Singer
    • (as Clo Vanesco)
    Nadine Verdier
    • Hotel Maid
    Virginie Vignon
    • Suitcase Salesgirl
    Daniel Emilfork
    • Le faux policier…
    Jérôme Lindon
    • Train traveller
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alain Robbe-Grillet
    • Writer
      • Alain Robbe-Grillet
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    8christopher-underwood

    Marvellous

    The films of Alain Robbe-Grillet may be clever, intellectually stimulating and effective but they can also be over serious and difficult to watch. This one is almost a complete joy. Beautifully photographed in wonderfully crisp b/w it looks great throughout. The director and his wife appear as passengers on the famous train, travelling to Antwerp and decide to conjure up a spy story. The superb, Jean-Louis Trintignant is the main man here and would appear to be the puppet for their story. Certainly we see him carrying out the actions they dictate into their tape recording machine as he goes hither and thither around the great city, of which we see much. Indeed, Antwerp being a favourite city of mine is another reason for this being so pleasurable for me to watch. The biggest surprise for me here, was not the much heralded, though undeniably effective S&M sequences but the extent to which humour plays a part here. There is a Bond poster on the wall at one point, as well as a shot from a Goddard film and it would seem Mr Grillet is also having a bit of a go at the very genre itself. Marvellous.
    6Red-125

    Jean-Louis & Marie-France directed by Alain. How bad can it be?

    Trans-Europ-Express (1966) was written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

    The plot of the movie is that a producer, director, and assistant are traveling from Paris to Antwerp. On the train, they amuse themselves by inventing a movie that would start off on a train from Paris to Antwerp, and continue from that point.

    The movie we see is the movie they are inventing as they travel. Jean-Louis Trintignant stars in this invented movie. As always, he has one expression--blank.

    The incomparable Marie-France Pisier stars in the movie as well. Apparently, no one had to work very hard to convince Marie-France to appear topless or participate in B&D. (Of course, we are expected to accept this, because this wasn't a real movie. It was just a movie that was being invented on a train.)

    The concept was interesting, but too much of it was actually about drug drops, keys to lockers in train stations, etc. Granted, it was interspersed with visually more interesting scenes, but it really wasn't a great movie.

    Trans-Europ-Express has a decent IMDb rating of 7.1. I didn't think it was that good, and rated it 6.
    10cbreyno

    Illusion and reality trade places on a train trip.

    This film is a beautifully done story within a story --- film within a film. The author and friends take a train ride and begin to work out a film; its plot, its characters and their actions. As the story evolves the characters take on their own existence, reality becomes inverted; they weave their own story as author becomes audience.

    It is a taste of the 1960's thinking of the Michael Caine foreign intrigue films, The Orient Express not to mention the Manchurian Candidate. In a way it thumbs its nose at the genre.

    I saw it when it ran almost forty years ago and enjoyed it immensely. If you can find it --- check it out.
    7skepticskeptical

    Spoofy Metafilm

    As a big fan of Jean-Louis Trintignant, I couldn't really pass this up. Alain Robbe-Grillet is always bound to do something meta, so this could only be some sort of film about film, and it is. There is also a story, but the point seems to be to talk about the construction of stories. Definitely worth watching once.
    8brogmiller

    We should set a film on a train like this.

    Director Alain Robbe-Grillet certainly polarises opinion. Everything from 'genius' to 'BS-artist'! Many reviews I have read are just as pretentious as his films are accused of being. As a leading figure of the 'Nouveau Roman' school it was a natural progression to the medium of film where he could portray the 'natural disorder of things' and reach a far wider audience. His unconventional structure suits this film perfectly as the director, playing himself, is literally making it up as he goes along whilst sitting on a train. In this he also has the services of two charismatic leads, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie -France Pisier plus Willy Kurant's splendid camera work. Many found the erotic images discomforting and although the bondage scenes in this are more M&S than S&M they were considered shocking enough in the mid-1960's to keep the film off British screens for quite a few years. Robbe-Grillet's film is easily his most accessible and works wonderfully as Film Noir spoof. It is great fun and should not be taken too seriously.

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    • Trivia
      This film was banned for a time by the British Censor because of its depiction of sexual bondage (which is now regarded as very tame). However, the ban was lifted at around the end of the 1960s.
    • Quotes

      Eva: And you? What do you do for a living?

      Elias: I'm an assassin.

      Eva: Professional?

      Elias: No, amateur... semi-professional, actually.

    • Connections
      References Bons Baisers de Russie (1963)
    • Soundtracks
      La Traviata

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    • Release date
      • January 25, 1967 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Belgium
    • Languages
      • French
      • Dutch
    • Also known as
      • Транс'європейський експрес
    • Filming locations
      • Central Station, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium(railway station)
    • Production companies
      • Como Films
      • Ministry of Education
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 45m(105 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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