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- Coup de Torchon has an approval rating of 83% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10. The New York Times praised the performances and "the meticulousness and conviction on display here" but also added that the film "seems strangely lacking in overall momentum and direction."
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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.
The local criminals openly mock Lucien's inability to put a stop to their illegal enterprises, and his unfaithful and shrewish wife Huguette (Stéphane Audran) is having a blatant affair with Nono...
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- Philippe Noiret
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Comedy
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 · Clean Slate: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran. A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.
- (6.7K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1981-11-04
Clean Slate Reviews. “Coup de Torchon” is one of the most devastatingly sly, raw and brilliant indictments of man’s inhumanity to man as viewed through a colonial prism. Full Review | Jan 1...
Dec 31, 2023 · “Coup de Torchon” is one of the most devastatingly sly, raw and brilliant indictments of man’s inhumanity to man as viewed through a colonial prism. Thompson’s book took place at the turn of the century in Pottsville, Texas, population 1280.
Nov 2, 2022 · Bertrand Tavernier’s 1981 movie Coup de Torchon is a bizarre adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel Pop. 1280. Bizarre not because Tavernier and his co-writer Jean Aurenche have moved the action from Texas to West Africa.
