SERIE NOIRE

In the dilapidated Parisian suburbs, a down-onhis-luck door-to-door salesman (Patrick Dewaere, Themroc) is appalled when a potential customer casually pimps out her teenage niece (Marie Trintingant) to him in exchange for a dressing gown. Enraged, he becomes determined to set the girl free by any means necessary, providing a catalyst for a spiral of escalating violence, robbery, and murder. Serie Noire, co-written by Corneau and novelist Georges Perec and based on Jim Thompson''''s novel A Hell of a Woman, is regarded as possibly the best screen realisation of Thompson''''s uniquely bleak and gruesomely comic noir aesthetic, powered by an infamously physical and committed lead performance from Dewaere. SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition digital transfer Uncompressed mono PCM audio Interviews with Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere and Miriam Boyer from Belgian Television (1981) Serie noire: The Darkness of the Soul - An archival documentary featuring cast and crew on the making of the film (2013, 53 mins) Archival interview with Alain Corneau and Marie Trintignant about Serie noire (2002, 30 mins) A visual essay about Jim Thompson adaptations for the screen (2024) Trailer New and improved English subtitles