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Filmming
Location |
1981.04~06
Senegal |
Date
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1981.10.30
France |
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2,199,
309 in France |
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Coup
de Torchon (1981)
aka: Clean Slate
DIRECTOR: Bertrand Tavernier
CAST: Philippe Noiret; Jean-Pierre Marielle; Stéphane Audran; Eddy Mitchell; Guy Marchand;
SYNOPSIS
It's set in French colonial Africa during the 1930s
NOTE
Isabelleis extremely funny and sexy in this film, probably because the director Bertrand
Tavernier has different view point of her. Impressed by her "completely original
and personal" way - a kind of Renoir's plumpness, an extraordinarily childish
side, an inner world crossed over by the flashes of those crazy laughs, the director
first cast her as the mistress of Philippe
Noiret in "The
judge and the assassin", and this time, a mistress too, but more sexy
and funny.
It's also very good to see Isabelle and Stephane
Audran again
after "Violette Noziere".- FORUM
QUOTE
Bertrand
Tavernier
"Painting Pictures" by Dan Yakir,
Film Comment, Sept/Oct.,
1984
Isabelle finds her own pace, makes her won
music. But like Romy
Schneider, a director has to find her rhythm and calculate his mise
en scène around it. She needs long takes. In Heaven's
Gate, she didn't come out all that
great, because her scenes were heavily edited to help Kris
Kristofferson. But
let her do a four-minute scene and she'll reach great heights! Up to Isabelle in
Coup de Ttorchon, my heriones moved very
slowly. But Isabelle played very quickly,
as
did Sabine Azéma in Sunday
in the Country. I was told, "You made
her
play like Truffaut's heroines."
Bertrand
Tavernier
"Isabelle
Huppert vue par...."
Isabelle, I think she is very sexy in "Coup
de Torchon", with a provoking, funny and non-star side. Her music
in it completely personal, comparable to some Manet and Renoir's characters, with
healthy, bizarre and stunning funny moments that do not exclude their dark, troubled,
complex sides...
AWARD
Oscar Best Foreign Film Nomination
in 1983 -
9 Cesar Award nominations,
including Best Film, Director, Actor and Actress, in 1982.
TRIVIA
The
director confessed "Now I like thin, child-women with samll breasts. The
oppsite of the Playboy type." No wonder he thinks Isabelle "can
be splendidly erotic and sensual."
This year's Cesar Best Actress
Nominations are supper competitve, Isabelle confronted Isabelle
Adjani, Catherine Deneuve (American
Hotel) and Fanny
Ardant (Woman
Next Door). Isabelle Adjani won
for Possession by Andrzej
Zulawski. "Coup de Torchon" was
the most nominated film but didn't receive any awards in the
end.
REVIEW
Paulin Kael, "Hopeless", New Yorker, January 24,
1983
"Huppert, who waggles her naked bottom at the camera, is the only really amusing
performer in the cast. When her bottom is coverred, Cordier, with mangy stubble
on his face, has his hand up her skirt. They're figures in a cartoon idyll.
Learning that she has become a widow, this spiteful sweetie strips and frolics.
And when she has an orgasm it barely ruffles her blank surface; she announces
it in a bemused, impartial tone, like a kid spotting an ant in his sandwich."
"Obscurity
and Comedy Blend to Buoy "Coup de Torchon", New
York Times, Jan. 23, 1983
Hopeless, New Yorker, Jan 24, 1983
"How
a novel
set in our South became a famous French Film", by Ron Miller
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