Synopsis
French New Wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the
Trans-Europ-Express. Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police, three filmmakers (who are also on the train making a film about drug-traffickers) and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring
Marie-France Pisier being bound and subjected to Trintignant's masochistic will. Originally banned by the BBC for scenes of sexual sadism and bondage,
Trans-Europ-Express was written and directed by ground-breaking and daring filmmaker Alain Robbe Grillet, best known for his experimental novels, and for writing
Alain Resnais’
Last Year in Marienbad.