COUP DE TORCHON
Special Features: New 4K Restoration
In a French West African colony in 1938, the town's lone cop (Philippe Noiret) is nobody's idea of Wyatt Earp, humiliated by his wife (Stéphane Audran) and sneered at by the local pimp (Jean-Pierre Marielle). Then he decides to take a stand — but is he going too far? An adaptation of Jim Thompson's noirer-than-noir pulp novel "Pop. 1280," Bertrand Tavernier's blackly comic revenge drama earned 10 César Award nominations, as well as a nod for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1983 Academy Awards®. DIR/SCR Bertrand Tavernier; SCR Jean Aurenche, from the novel "Pop. 1280" by Jim Thompson; PROD Henri Lassa, Adolphe Viezzi. France, 1981, color, 128 min. NOT RATED
Restored in 4K from the original negative by Studiocanal at L'Image Retrouvée, with color correction by Jean Achache on behalf of Bertrand Tavernier.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 128 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 31, 2024
Genre: Crime