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Coup de Torchon (also known as Clean Slate) is a 1981 French crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and adapted from Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280. The film changes the novel's setting from an American Southern town to a small town in French West Africa.
Nov 4, 1981 · Original title: Coup de torchon. 1981. Not Rated. 2h 8m. IMDb RATING. 7.4 /10. 6.8K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 2:29. 3 Videos. 36 Photos. Comedy Crime Drama. A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so. Director. Bertrand Tavernier. Writers.
Coup de torchon est un film français réalisé par Bertrand Tavernier, sorti en 1981 . Synopsis. 1938. En Afrique-Occidentale française. Lucien Cordier ( Philippe Noiret) est l'unique policier d'une petite ville coloniale. Méprisé de tous pour sa lâcheté et sa veulerie, il est l'objet de moqueries et de railleries.
An inspired rendering of Jim Thompson’s pulp novel Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de torchon (Clean Slate) deftly transplants the story of an inept police chief turned heartless killer and his scrappy mistress from the American South to French West Africa.
Bertrand Tavernier's "Coup de Torchon" is a cruel intellectual joke played on its characters -- who endure boredom, self-contempt, hate, dust, flies and sometimes even death without being allowed to know they're only part of an existential parable.
Coup de Torchon est un film réalisé par Bertrand Tavernier avec Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert. Synopsis : Lucien Cordier, unique policier d'une petite bourgade africaine, est un être...
The local criminals openly mock Lucien's inability to put a stop to their illegal enterprises, and his unfaithful and shrewish wife Huguette (Stéphane...
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