Coup de Torchon (1981)
- Original title
- Coup de torchon
- Directed by
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, crime film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 220 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A lazy and disrespected police chief in a small French West African town decides to clean up his corrupt community by murdering local criminals. He expects the killings to earn him respect but finds himself in an absurd spiral of violence and hypocrisy.
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What happens
Coup De Torchon (also known as Clean Slate) is a 1981 French satirical neo-noir dark comedy crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and adapted from American author Jim Thompson's 1964 crime novel Pop. 1280. Starred by Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Pierre Marielle. The film tells the story of a lazy, useless and disrespected police chief who becomes a cold-blooded killer and goes on a killing spree of local "villains" to "clean" his corrupt town and gain respect, reputation and honor. The film changes the novel's setting from an American Southern town to a small town in French West Africa. The film had 2,199,309 admissions in France and was the 16th most attended film of the year. It received the Prix Méliès from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics as the best French film of 1981. Coup De Torchon was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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