LoginCoup de Torchon (The Criterion Collection) - Region 1 DVD
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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 West Africa of the 1930s, where the very first black slaves entered the New World. Philippe Noiret plays a bumbling police chief who's the butt of ridicule in the corrupt town, with an abusive wife (Stéphane Audran) who cheats on him and laughs in his face. But Noiret reaches a point of quiet madness, slowly getting his revenge by going on a killing spree. The subdued actor is at
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Manufacturer: Criterion
Release date: 13 March 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780780023314 UPC: 037429149829
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Release date: 13 March 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780780023314 UPC: 037429149829
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