These black corsets, these slit skirts, these chains, these popular erotic images that I treated as you say fairly stereotypical belong, I believe, to a collective erotic material
Trans-Europ-Express Eroticism
Jean-Louis Trintignant & Marie-France Pisier, Trans-Europ-Express, 1966
Alain Robbe-Grillet shows in Trans-Europ-Express a new and explicit eroticism and simply explains why the popular erotic fiction and the pin-up magazines were the source of his inspiration for his second film:
Ces guêpières noires, ces jupes fendues, ces chaînes, toutes ces images érotiques populaires que j’ai traitées comme vous dites de façon assez stéréotypée appartiennent, selon moi, à un matériel érotique collectif qui donc est mien également, et à un fond commun de cette civillisation occidentale dans laquelle nous vivons.
These black corsets, these slit skirts, these chains, these popular erotic images that I treated as you say fairly stereotypical belong, I believe, to a collective erotic material which is therefore also mine, and to a common background of this Western civilization in which we live.
