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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.
Dec 5, 2017 · I watched this film in New York when it first came out. 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.
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.
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.
Coup de torchon est un film français réalisé par Bertrand Tavernier, sorti en 1981.
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 is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film changes the novel's setting from a West Texas oil boom town to a small town in French West Africa.
