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
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 »
Lucien Cordier:
I can't read the aviator's book. It's too well-written.
Anne:
You like sounding illiterate? You're not. So why?
Lucien Cordier:
Habit. Grammar gets rusty like everything else if you don't use it. And in Africa the same goes for good and evil. What's good? What's evil? Nobody knows. It's not much use here. So it gets rusty too. Must be the climate.
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