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Coup de torchon (1981)
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4 November 1981 (France)
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1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful)...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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10 nominations
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European script based on American novel
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Philippe Noiret | ... | Lucien Cordier |
 | Isabelle Huppert | ... | Rose Mercaillou |
| Jean-Pierre Marielle | ... | Le Peron et son frère L'adjudant Georges Le Peron |
| Stéphane Audran | ... | Huguette Cordier |
| Eddy Mitchell | ... | Nono - l'amant demeuré d'Huguette |
| Guy Marchand | ... | Marcel Chavasson |
| Irène Skobline | ... | Anne - la nouvelle institutrice |
| Michel Beaune | ... | Vanderbrouck - un nouveau riche arrogant |
| Jean Champion | ... | Priest |
| Victor Garrivier | ... | Mercaillou |
| Gérard Hernandez | ... | Leonelli |
| Abdoulaye Diop | ... | Fête Nat - le serviteur noir de Lucien |
| Daniel Langlet | ... | Paulo - un flic larvaire |
| François Perrot | ... | Le colonel Tramichel |
| Raymond Hermantier | ... | L'aveugle |
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Revealing mistakes: When Marcel is playing billiards, he continues his turn even though he has not scored.
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[Rose realizes she is wanted for murder]
Rose: You have to help me. I can't take it. What can I do?
Lucien Cordier: How the hell do I know? Any idiot can see they were shot with your gun.
Rose: But that's horrible!
Lucien Cordier: At first it is horrible. But then you start to think about starving kids, little girls sold into slavery, women whose sex is sewn up... God created murder out of pure kindness. Murder is nothing compared to those horrors.
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Rose: You have to help me. I can't take it. What can I do?
Lucien Cordier: How the hell do I know? Any idiot can see they were shot with your gun.
Rose: But that's horrible!
Lucien Cordier: At first it is horrible. But then you start to think about starving kids, little girls sold into slavery, women whose sex is sewn up... God created murder out of pure kindness. Murder is nothing compared to those horrors.
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References L'affaire du courrier de Lyon (1937)
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One of the best films ever on my regard. It is possible that European viewers are more familiar with the colonial history behind it, though the script is based on an American novel (Pop.1280 by Jim Thompson). The original story is based in America, but here it is based in a French-African colony in the 1930's.
The baseline is a global truth: everybody has his breaking point.
Great acting performances by everyone involved.
Don't forget to check out the other films by this French director; he often shows he's one of the best!
And while you're there: some of the best movies (Tati, Resnais, Truffaut...) ever were made in France; so are some of the worst(DO NOT check out French comedies, they are mostly awful)