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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 · This is what makes Coup de tochon, or Clean Slate, based on the Jim Thompson novel Pop 1280 (mentioned in passing as Pop. 1275 for no good reason at one point in the film), is about this man who is warm, lustful, proud, and perhaps a not entirely bright but not stupid either.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1981-11-04
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.
- Lucien Cordier
Dec 5, 2017 · 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. To this day, it's one of my favorite.
Coup de Torchon. 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.
Hapless Lucien Cordier (Philippe Noiret) is the beleaguered police chief of a small town in French colonial Senegal.
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- Comedy
Ce film est adapté d'un roman policier de Jim Thompson, 1275 âmes ( Pop. 1280 en version originale ; no 1000 de la Série noire) qui se situe dans un petit village du Sud des États-Unis. Le scénario replaçant l'histoire dans l'Afrique coloniale française, les Noirs américains deviennent les Indigènes des colonies dans le film.
