Coup de torchon

     

Coup de torchon1981

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Eddy Mitchell
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 128 minutes

Bertrand Tavernier tranforms Jim Thompson's pulp novel Pop. 1280 into an engrossing and unsettling meditation on moral collapse. Arguably his best thriller, the French director transposes the story from the American South of the 1910s to colonial We… more »


Le Peron:
The brothel's throwing a party for the new colonel. Got any prisoners who can wait on table?

Lucien Cordier:
You know I never arrest anyone unless I have to. I have enough troubles of my own.

Leonelli:
What good is an empty prison?

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