Original title: Coup de torchon
Year: 1981
Country: France
Region Code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515338318
Image: 1.66:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: French - Uncompressed Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Synopsis:
With this existential crime thriller, legend of French cinema Bertrand Tavernier transforms Jim Thompson’s hard-boiled novel Pop. 1280 into a darkly comic, philosophically provocative exploration of the brutality and absurdity of colonialism. Moving the story’s setting from the American South to 1930s French West Africa, Coup de torchon features a frighteningly enigmatic performance from Philippe Noiret as a police chief whose seeming ineptitude masks a cold-blooded pursuit of revenge and control that draws his opportunistic mistress (a fiery Isabelle Huppert) into an escalating spiral of violence. With each chilling revelation, Tavernier plunges us ever deeper into an abyss of madness and corruption, laying bare the decaying soul of empire.
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