Coup de torchon (1981) Bertrand Tavernier (French)

Coup de torchon (1981) Bertrand Tavernier

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Writer: Jean Aurenche, Bertrand Tavernier | Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell, Gérard Hernandez, Irène Skobline | Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy, Foreign | Music: Philippe Sarde | Editor: Armand Psenny | Cinematography: Pierre-Wiliam Glenn | Runtime: 128 Min | Format: DvdRip, Color, NTSC, Avi | Language: French, with English subs included in rar files | Country: France

Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film follows the novel relatively faithfully, but changes its setting from a West Texas boom town to a small town in French West Africa.
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 trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.

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Synopsis: Lucien Cordier (Philippe Noiret) is an ineffectual local constable with a cheating wife and laughable job. He accepts condescension from his superiors and his wife with good humor, as his antisocial personality allows him to tolerate such abuse. However, he soon realizes that he can use his position to gain vengeance with impunity, and he starts to kill everyone who has regarded him as a fool. After numerous trysts and murders, his pathology catches up with him in the film's climax.

Awards and nominations
Academy Awards (USA), Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film
César Awards (France)
Nominated: Best Actor – Leading Role (Philippe Noiret)
Nominated: Best Actor – Supporting Role (Jean-Pierre Marielle)
Nominated: Best Actor – Supporting Role (Eddy Mitchell)
Nominated: Best Actress – Leading Role (Isabelle Huppert)
Nominated: Best Actress – Supporting Role (Stéphane Audran)
Nominated: Best Director (Bertrand Tavernier
Nominated: Best Editing (Armand Psenny)
Nominated: Best Film
Nominated: Best Production Design (Alexandre Trauner)
Nominated: Best Writing (Jean Aurenche and Bertrand Tavernier)
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics (France)
Won: Best Film (tied with Garde à vue)

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