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Coup de Torchon

Coup de Torchon

7.0/ 10

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1981

Release Year

128 min

Runtime

Comedy
Crime
Drama

Overview

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Keywords

adultery
based on novel or book
love triangle
murder
mistress
racism
french noir
framed for a crime
public humiliation
open marriage
gun shooting
voyeur
french colonialism
french colony
revenge killing
african village
west africa
abused wife
lazy
witty
gun death
openly adulterous wife
adulterous husband
corrupt police
manipulative man

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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

April 13, 2024

7
7/10

I did really quite enjoy Philippe Noiret's performance here, but I couldn't help but wonder if Sir Peter Ustinov wouldn't have had fun with this part too. It's all set in French West Africa just before the start of WWII. His town is a small, largely agrarian and provincial one where "Cordier" is the

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