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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.
- (6.8K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1981-11-04
Ce film est adapté d'un roman policier de Jim Thompson, 1275 âmes (Pop. 1280 en version originale ; n o 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.
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Les Films de la TourFilms A2Little Bear
- Jean AurencheBertrand Tavernier
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
Jul 16, 2010 · Avec : Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle. Genre : Comédie dramatique. La critique de Coup de Torchon sur : http://www.cinemotif.fr / Coup de Torchon, de...
- 2 min
- 91.9K
- cinemotifTV
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.
Coup de Torchon est un film réalisé par Bertrand Tavernier avec Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert. Synopsis : Lucien Cordier, unique policier d'une petite bourgade africaine,...
