Coup de Torchon
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| Coup de Torchon | |
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| Directed by | Bertrand Tavernier |
| Produced by | Henri Lassa Adolphe Viezzi |
| Starring | Philippe Noiret Isabelle Huppert Jean-Pierre Marielle Stéphane Audran Eddy Mitchell |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
| Cinematography | Pierre-Wiliam Glenn |
| Editing by | Armand Psenny |
| Release date(s) |  4 November 1981 20 December 1982 |
| Running time | 128 min. |
| Country | France |
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Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film follows almost the entire plot of the novel, but alters its setting from a West Texas boom town to a French colony in West Africa.
[edit] Plot
Lucien Cordier (played by Philippe Noiret) is an ineffectual local constable with a cheating wife and laughable job. He accepts condecension 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.
[edit] Cast
- Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
- Isabelle Huppert - Rose
- Jean-Pierre Marielle - Le Peron and his brother
- Stéphane Audran - Huguette Cordier
- Eddy Mitchell - Nono
- Guy Marchand - Marcel Chavasson
- Irène Skobline - Anne, the teacher
- Michel Beaune - Vanderbrouck
- Jean Champion - Priest
- Victor Garrivier - Mercaillou
- Gérard Hernandez - Leonelli
- Abdoulaye Diop - Fete Nat
- Daniel Langlet - Paulo
- François Perrot - Colonel Tramichel
- Raymond Hermantier - Blind man
- Mamadou Dioumé - Mamadou
- Samba Mané - Vendredi
