Philippe Noiret
Lucien Cordier
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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.
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.
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.
- Lucien Cordier
Nov 4, 1981 · A comedy crime drama set in French West Africa, where a humiliated police chief resorts to drastic means to start a new life. Based on the novel Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson, the film features Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1981-11-04
Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Neely Swanson Easy Reader (California) “Coup de Torchon” is one of the most devastatingly sly, raw and brilliant indictments of man’s inhumanity to man...
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- Philippe Noiret
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Comedy
Based on Jim Thompson's novel Pop. 1280, this film follows a bumbling police chief in colonial Senegal who kills everyone who has wronged him. A dark and satirical tale of revenge, infidelity, and colonialism, starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert.
A film noir adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel set in French West Africa on the eve of WWII, starring Philippe Noiret as a rogue cop who kills indiscriminately. The film is a darkly comic and ambiguous commentary on colonialism, power and morality.
