New on Blu-ray: COUP DE TORCHON / CLEAN SLATE (1981) Starring Philippe Noiret & Isabelle Huppert - Criterion Collection

Coup De Torchon 1981 New On Bluray Criterion Collection

Product Description: With this existential crime thriller, legend of French cinema Bertrand Tavernier transforms Jim Thompson’s hard-boiled novel Pop. 1280 into a darkly comic, philosophically provocative exploration of the brutality and absurdity of colonialism. Moving the story’s setting from the American South to 1930s French West Africa, Coup de torchon features a frighteningly enigmatic performance from Philippe Noiret as a police chief whose seeming ineptitude masks a cold-blooded pursuit of revenge and control that draws his opportunistic mistress (a fiery Isabelle Huppert) into an escalating spiral of violence. With each chilling revelation, Tavernier plunges us ever deeper into an abyss of madness and corruption, laying bare the decaying soul of empire.

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Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Starring: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 128 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: French

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: August 11, 2026

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Region: Region A/1

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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Interview from 2001 with director Bertrand Tavernier
New interview with critic and poet Robert Polito about source-novel author Jim Thompson
Making-of program featuring on-set footage and interviews with members of the cast and crew
Alternate ending
Trailers
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by scholar Lynn Anthony Higgins
New cover by Sean Phillips