Serie Noire Blu-ray

'Série noire' Director: Alain Corneau (1979) Radiance Blu-ray | HD transfer | French w/ English subtitles

In the dilapidated Parisian suburbs, a down-on-his-luck door-to-door salesman is appalled when a potential customer casually pimps out her teenage niece 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.

Série 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 Patrick Dewaere.

Special features include:

• Archival interviews with Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere and Miriam Boyer from Belgian Television
  
• Série 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
  
• Visual essay about Jim Thompson adaptations for the screen by Paul Martinovic