Serie Noire [Blu-ray]

In the dilapidated Parisian suburbs, a down-on-his-luck door-to-door salesman, played by Patrick Dewaere, 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. Serie Noire, co-written by Alain Corneau and novelist Georges Perec and based on Jim Thompson’s novel A Hell of a Woman, is regarded as possibly the best screen realization 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)
• 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 about Série noire (2002, 30 mins)
• A visual essay about Jim Thompson adaptations for the screen (2024)
• Trailer
• New and improved English subtitles

Specifications:

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: French, English
• Run Time: 1 hour and 56 minutes
• Release Date: 2026-07-20
• Age Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Actors: Marie Trintignant, Myriam Boyer, Patrick Dewaere
• Director: Alain Corneau
• Studio: Radiance Films
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 15 x 2 cm; 240 g