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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.
- $16.5 million
- Philippe Sarde
- Henri Lassa, Adolphe Viezzi
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.
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Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
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.
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 40
- 2 min
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. Featuring pitch-perfect performances by Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert ...
- Lucien Cordier
Watch Clean Slate with a subscription on Max. Hapless Lucien Cordier (Philippe Noiret) is the beleaguered police chief of a small town in French colonial Senegal. The local criminals openly mock ...
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Synopsis by Elbert Ventura. Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa, a dusty outpost in ...
