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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 · 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.
Mar 21, 2012 · Une comédie noire et satirique sur un policier faible qui se laisse pousser dans une folie meurtrière en Afrique coloniale. Avec Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Eddy Mitchell et Jean-Pierre Marielle.
The local criminals openly mock Lucien's inability to put a stop to their illegal enterprises, and his unfaithful and shrewish wife Huguette (Stéphane...
Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film changes the novel's setting from a West Texas oil boom town to a small town in French West Africa.
