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Coup de torchon

Coup de torchon

1981
Comedy, Crime
2h 8m
1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually dumb, racialist and lustful) (imdb)
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Coup de torchon

1981
Comedy, Crime
2h 8m
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Rated 18 Dec 2006
91
95th
Wonderful dark comedy with a tremendous performance from Noiret. The north African setting is perfect, giving the film a languid air to contrast with it's stop and start pacing that keeps you constantly riveted.
Rated 30 Jan 2024
80
90th
(LOUT OF AFRICA)
Rated 23 Dec 2013
85
78th
O problema desse filme é que ele é baseado numa obra prima de Jim Thompson, sendo uma adaptação que cobre todo o clima do livro, mesmo mudando a época e o local em que se passa, fica-se com aquela sensação de que está faltando algo... É um excelente filme, mas creio que gostaria mais dele se não tivesse lido o livro.
Rated 21 Jul 2013
71
27th
I find the adaptation after the book to be rather weak. I mean, why would french africa be a more appropriate place (than the american deep south) to reflect the death of human morals? It lacks the charm, it's just sad & without flavor. Also, pretty poor acting from the ladies' side. Bah, i'm stuck in the "book was better" syndrome.
Rated 30 Oct 2014
73
79th
I'm picturing the wicked grin that novelist Thompson and adapting screenwriter Aurenche must have donned while each of them was writing his part. It's a bitter and dark comedy whose disgruntled anti-hero either deflects his personal responsibility or (by his own account) merely reflects the all-consuming corruption of his colonial surroundings. The dialogue is witty, and Tavernier films it all in an alluring beige palette.
Rated 07 Sep 2008
40
12th
Unfunny and long-winded.
Rated 26 Aug 2012
79
58th
Coal black comedy is a winner for about two-thirds of the way, after which it becomes somewhat repetitve and redundant, as story threads and characters are awkwardly wound up. Noiret is brilliant though, successfully charting his character's journey from stumblebum to "cleaner" (though how much of a journey it is remains teasingly ambiguous). Marielle is also excellent in his scenes evoking two completely different characters. Very offbeat and intriguing.
Rated 20 Jul 2013
67
65th
a good adaptation of a fantastic book. would have benefited from a darker tone, and more hard-boiled broads. isabelle huppert was a bit disappointing actually.
Rated 10 Oct 2013
79
61st
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Rated 22 Jun 2009
90
86th
Phillipe Noiret as the world's least tough cop. That may not sound very promising, but after a while, when the story has had time to develop, that it is Thompson's story becomes... ah... rather evident. To say more would risk giving too much away. Suffice it to say that this is *not* what you might expect. It also has one of the most bizarre yet utterly fitting endings of any movie I have ever witnessed. It is a real treat
Rated 25 May 2008
75
54th
Tavernier's neo-noir/dark comedy is interesting, but ultimately feels empty. The humor isn't all that funny, instead it seems to just go for inappropriate and leave it at that. The performances are good but the film doesn't have a distinctive sense of style. I did like the Kafka-esque tone of the moral ambiguity. I felt that there was an allegory at play here, especially considering the setting, but I struggled to pick up on exactly what it was.
Rated 02 Apr 2021
88
86th
An excellent neo-noir whose transposition into colonial Africa reinforces the original novel's atmosphere of moral rot to an incredible degree. Noiret's slow transformation from oaf to mad mystical killer is wonderful and absorbing throughout.
Rated 05 Jun 2022
80
68th
Thompson has an affinity for characters who appear to be idiots, but are really somewhat cunning psychopaths. Casting Noiret in this role is inspired since his affability takes the audience with him even as his actions become increasingly dark and disturbing.
Rated 02 Oct 2023
32
21st
After reading about this, I was a bit surprised as to just how unwatchable I found it. Then I consulted some critics I trust. Pauline Kael: "The movie is torpid even in the early sequences that aim at sly farce [....] [It] chokes on its own unresolvable ambiguities." And Roger Ebert wrote, "[It] left me cold, unmoved and uninvolved. All I could find to admire was the craftsmanship." Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

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