StudioCanal have revealed that they are planing to bring to Blu-ray director Alain Corneau's classic neo-noir thriller
Série Noire (1979), starring Patrick Dewaere (
Going Places), Marie Trintignant (
Story of Women), Bernard Blier (
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe Collection), and Myriam Boyer (
Un Coeur en Hiver). The preliminary release date for the French market is June 11th.
Based on Jim Thompson's novel
Hell of a Woman. Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal... A very gloomy movie, exuding despair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.