Coup de torchon
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Philippe Noiret
Lucien Cordier
Isabelle Huppert
Rose Mercaillou
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Le Peron / Le Peron's twin brother
Stéphane Audran
Huguette Cordier
Eddy Mitchell
Nono
Guy Marchand
Marcel Chavasson
Michel Beaune
Vanderbrouck
Jean Champion
Le curé
Victor Garrivier
Marcaillou
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
I did really quite enjoy Philippe Noiret's performance here, but I couldn't help but wonder if Sir Peter Ustinov wouldn't have had fun with this part too. It's all set in French West Africa just before the start of WWII. His town is a small, largely agrarian and provincial one where "Cordier" is the local cop. To be fair, he's a bit of an hopeless case and everyone from his wife "Hugette" (Stéphane Audran) downwards takes him for a fool. Suddenly though, something snaps. His attitude changes to one of an avenging angel who discovers that he does actually quite enjoy killing people - and he knows full well that nobody cares about the law. His new found, emboldened, character also embarks on a bit of a fling with "Rose" (Isabelle Huppert) and guess what, she's quite keen on getting in on his new community strategy too! It's comedic, yes - but very darkly so as it deals with issues of colonial superiority. Not just with the locals but amongst an hierarchy of their own community that is riddled with double-standards, hypocrisy and odious contradictions. As the story develops, we see an entertaining vision of the obnoxious pursuing the ghastly and just about everyone gets their just desserts. The writing (even via subtitles) is really quite imaginatively pithy; Noiret and Audran have one of those hate/hate relationships that it's a joy to watch, albeit it from a safe distance. It does lose it's way a little towards the end. Bernard Tavernier seems to have run out of steam and has no obvious way of concluding things in as pacy a fashion as the first ninety minutes or so of the story. Still, it uses a degree of satire to cast some delightful aspersions on the colonial classes and I quite enjoyed it.
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จอห์นนี่ เคลย์ อาชญากรอาชีพจ้างมือปืน ตำรวจโกง บาร์เทนเดอร์ และนักพนันชื่อจอร์จ และคนอื่นๆ สำหรับงานสุดท้ายก่อนที่เขาจะกลับตัวกลับใจและแต่งงาน แต่เมื่อจอร์จบอกภรรยาที่กระสับกระส่ายของเขาเกี่ยวกับแผนการขโมยเงินหลายล้านจากสนามแข่งม้าที่เขาทำงานอยู่ เธอจึงคิดแผนของตัวเองขึ้นมา
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ภาพยนตร์ที่อิงมาจากนิยายในชื่อเดียวกันของ วิลเลี่ยม ลินด์เซย์ เกรชแฮม เรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับชายนักต้มตุ๋นผู้ทะเยอทยานคนหนึ่งที่มาตกหลุมรักจิตแพทย์หญิง แต่สุดท้ายเธอกลับทำให้เขาต้องตกอยู่ในสถานการณ์ที่คาดไม่ถึง