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    Coup de Torchon
    a.k.a. Clean Slate, Pop. 1280 Director: Bertrand Tavernier Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran

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    • DVD Release Date: 03/13/2001
    • Original Release: 1981
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 986

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    Side #1 --
    0. Side #1 --
    0. Chapters
    1. Logos [:09]
    2. Opening credits [:11]
    3. Eclipse [1:07]
    4. King of all he surveys [3:49]
    5. One big happy family [3:16]
    6. The good life in Bourkassa [2:27]
    7. Same old... [2:19]
    8. Riverside recreation [3:10]
    9. 1275 Souls [2:46]
    10. Strangers on a train [6:54]
    11. "Caterinetta Bella" [3:27]
    12. Midnight visitor [4:03]
    13. The morning after [3:45]
    14. The law in action [5:25]
    15. "Africans hate a boring death" [3:46]
    16. The widow Marcaillou [1:41]
    17. At the pictures [6:42]
    18. After-dark diversions [3:38]
    19. Merde, merde, et merde encore [3:27]
    20. A gun for Rose [2:57]
    21. Peeping Nono [2:55]
    22. Surprise... [2:53]
    23. "We all kill what we love" [5:54]
    24. "Tra as in tra la la..." [5:27]
    25. Lucien looks after Rose [4:08]
    26. A ghost [2:21]
    27. Toast to the dead [4:21]
    28. "I can never say no" [1:38]
    29. Friends in high places [4:53]
    30. Good intentions [4:33]
    31. Huguette deserves good times [3:16]
    32. Declaration of war [3:14]
    33. Bon voyage, Rose [3:33]
    34. The last waltz [4:57]
    35. End credits [4:00]

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    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 rural Senegal. Badgered by local thugs, Lucien initially comes across as a pathetic oaf unable to stand up for himself. Things at home are scarcely better, as Lucien finds himself harried by his nagging wife, Huguette (Stéphane Audran), who is carrying on an affair with a man she claims to be her brother (Eddy Mitchell). Without warning, Lucien embarks on a nonchalant killing spree, murdering everyone who has ever mistreated him. As he sets about "cleaning the slate," Lucien intensifies his affair with ditsy Rose (Isabelle Huppert), all the while pining for the newly arrived schoolteacher, Anne (Irene Skobline). Remaining above suspicion even as bodies pile up, the seemingly witless Lucien gradually develops a twisted logic for his actions, animating his crusade with an evangelical purpose. By movie's end, Tavernier leaves little room for redemption, leaving the joyless Lucien mired in a moral quagmire of his own making. ~ Elbert Ventura, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide

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