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 »


Priest:
You'll never arrest anybody. How can they respect you? You've got to show folks you're brave, honest, and hard-working. Here, hold this.

Lucien Cordier:
I can't.

Priest:
Why not?

Lucien Cordier:
First, because I'm not brave, honest, and hard-working, and second, because I don't think my bosses want me to be.

Priest:
How come?

Lucien Cordier:
If they wanted someone brave, honest, and hard-working, they wouldn't have hired me.

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