Trans-Europ-Express

film by Robbe-Grillet [1966]

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Trans-Europ-Express is a 1966 film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It is considered part of the French New Wave, a style characterized by individualistic directors and innovative techniques. Robbe-Grillet, a leading theoretician of the nouveau roman ("new novel"), applied his literary approach to filmmaking, focusing on objects and actions with minimal psychological commentary. The film, like his novels, emphasizes recurring images and objective observation, often blurring the lines between reality, memory, and dreams. Robbe-Grillet's films, including Trans-Europ-Express, explore the ambiguous relationship between objectivity and subjectivity.123

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Alain Robbe-Grillet
…them L’Immortelle (1963; “The Immortal”), Trans-Europ-Express (1966), and L’Homme qui ment (1968; The Man Who Lies). His best-known work in the medium, however, is the screenplay for Alain Resnais’s film L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Marienbad). Ultimately, Robbe-Grillet’s work raises questions about the ambiguous relationship of objectivity…
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…them L’Immortelle (1963; “The Immortal”), Trans-Europ-Express (1966), and L’Homme qui ment (1968; The Man Who Lies). His best-known work in the medium, however, is the screenplay for Alain Resnais’s film L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Marienbad). Ultimately, Robbe-Grillet’s work raises questions about the ambiguous relationship of objectivity…
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