Coup de Torchon

Coup de Torchon
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Bertrand Tavernier
Produced by	Henri Lassa Adolphe Viezzi
Written by	Bertrand Tavernier Jean Aurenche
Based on	Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Starring	Philippe Noiret Isabelle Huppert Jean-Pierre Marielle
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Cinematography	Pierre-Wiliam Glenn
Edited by	Armand Psenny
Distributed by	Parafrance Films (France) Biograph Int'l (US)
Release dates	4 November 1981 (1981-11-04)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$16.5 million^[1]

Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film changes the novel's setting from a West Texas oil boom town to a small town in French West Africa.^[2]^[3] The film had 2,199,309 Admissions in France and was the 16th most attended film of the year.^[4]

Plot

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.

Cast

Philippe Noiret as Lucien Cordier
Isabelle Huppert as Rose
Jean-Pierre Marielle as Le Peron and his brother
Stéphane Audran as Huguette Cordier
Eddy Mitchell as Nono
Guy Marchand as Marcel Chavasson
Irène Skobline as Anne, the teacher
Michel Beaune as Vanderbrouck
Jean Champion as Priest

Victor Garrivier as Mercaillou
Gérard Hernandez as Leonelli
Abdoulaye Diop as Fête Nat
Daniel Langlet as Paulo
François Perrot as Colonel Tramichel
Raymond Hermantier as Blind man
Mamadou Dioumé as Mamadou
Samba Mané as Vendredi

Awards and honors

Academy Awards (USA)
- Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film^[5]
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)

References

↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7244
↑ Farber, Stephen (1990-01-21). "In the Desert, a Jim Thompson Novel Blossoms on Film". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
↑ Maslin, Janet (1982-12-20). "Clean Slate (1981) 'Coup De Torchon,' Life In A French Colony". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
↑ "Coup de torchon (1981)". JPBox-Office. 1981-11-04. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
↑ "The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-10-13.

External links

Films directed by Bertrand Tavernier

Let Joy Reign Supreme The Clockmaker The Judge and the Assassin Spoiled Children A Week's Vacation Death Watch Coup de Torchon A Sunday in the Country Round Midnight Beatrice Life and Nothing But Daddy Nostalgie Revenge of the Musketeers The Bait Captain Conan It All Starts Today Safe Conduct Holy Lola In the Electric Mist The Princess of Montpensier The French Minister

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels	Now and on Earth (1942) Heed the Thunder (aka Sins of the Fathers) (1946) Nothing More Than Murder (1949) The Killer Inside Me (1952) Cropper's Cabin (1952) Recoil (1953) The Alcoholics (1953) Savage Night (1953) Bad Boy (1953) The Criminal (1953) The Golden Gizmo (1954) Roughneck (1954) A Swell-Looking Babe (1954) A Hell of a Woman (1954) The Nothing Man (1954) After Dark, My Sweet (1955) The Kill-Off (1957) Wild Town (1957) The Getaway (1958) The Transgressors (1961) The Grifters (1963) Pop. 1280 (1964) Texas By the Tail (1965) South of Heaven (1967) Child of Rage (1972) King Blood (1973) Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988) The Rip-Off (1989)

Films	The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) The Getaway (1972) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Série noire (1979) Coup de Torchon (1981) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Kill-Off (1990) The Grifters (1990) The Getaway (1994) Hit Me (1996) This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) The Killer Inside Me (2010)

French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

1948–1960	Monsieur Vincent (1948) The Walls of Malapaga (1950) Forbidden Games (1952) Gervaise (1956) Gates of Paris (1957) My Uncle (1958) Black Orpheus (1959) La Vérité (1960)

1961–1980	Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Sundays and Cybele (1962) The Fire Within (1963) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Pierrot le Fou (1965) A Man and a Woman (1966) Live for Life (1967) Stolen Kisses (1968) My Night with Maud (1969) Hoa-Binh (1970) Ramparts of Clay (1971) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Day for Night (1973) Lacombe, Lucien (1974) India Song (1975) Cousin, cousine (1976) Madame Rosa (1977) Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) A Simple Story (1979) The Last Metro (1980)

1981–2000	Diva (1981) Coup de Torchon (1982) Entre Nous (1983) So Long, Stooge (1984) Three Men and a Cradle (1985) Betty Blue (1986) Au revoir, les enfants (1987) La Lectrice (1988) Camille Claudel (1989) Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Van Gogh (1991) Indochine (1992) Germinal (1993) Wild Reeds (1994) French Twist (1995) Ridicule (1996) Western (1997) The Dreamlife of Angels (1998) East/West (1999) The Taste of Others (2000)

2001–present	Amélie (2001) 8 Women (2002) Bon Voyage (2003) The Chorus (2004) Joyeux Noël (2005) Avenue Montaigne (2006) Persepolis (2007) The Class (2008) A Prophet (2009) Of Gods and Men (2010) Declaration of War (2011) The Intouchables (2012) Renoir (2013) Saint Laurent (2014) Mustang (2015)

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