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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.
Dec 5, 2017 · I watched this film in New York when it first came out. I went back to watch it again and again and every time I saw another meaning for the various situations. Even though the film was in French with English subtitles, it was on for 2 full years. It's an adaptation of an American novel by Jim Thompson: 1275 Souls.
Nov 4, 1981 · A humiliated police chief in a French African colony becomes a ruthless killer in this adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel Pop. 1280. Starring Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran, directed by Bertrand Tavernier.
A neonoir film by Bertrand Tavernier based on Jim Thompson's novel Pop. 1280, set in French West Africa. Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert star as a corrupt police chief and his mistress in this darkly humorous and visually stunning thriller.
Roger Ebert criticizes Bertrand Tavernier's film as a cold and distancing exercise in existentialism, based on Jim Thompson's novel. He compares it to Albert Camus' "The Stranger" and Faulkner's Snopes family.
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.
Philippe Noiret stars as a police chief who plots revenge on his unfaithful wife and her lover in colonial Senegal. The film is a dark and humorous adaptation of Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier and featuring Isabelle Huppert.
