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Coup de Torchon (1981)

★ 7.3Not Rated128 minDirector: Bertrand Tavernier

1981 French film

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. 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

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What is Coup de Torchon about?
Coup de Torchon (1981) — 1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty
Is Coup de Torchon based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Coup de Torchon scary?
Content rating: Not Rated. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.