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)
• 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