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Clean Slate (1981)

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Reviews Counted:6

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Average Rating:7.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: It is 1938 in the French West Africa village of Bourkassa and the one-man police force is tired of being a doormat. In this dark comic adaptation of Jim Thompson's "POP. 1280," the hapless officer... It is 1938 in the French West Africa village of Bourkassa and the one-man police force is tired of being a doormat. In this dark comic adaptation of Jim Thompson's "POP. 1280," the hapless officer decides to take the law into his own hands and rid the town of its human waste. [More]

Starring: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Guy Marchand

Starring: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Guy Marchand, Eddy Mitchell

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Clean Slate is a compelling offbeat morality play.

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Jeremy Heilman

It’s often hilarious. It’s just that that humor is so mordant that it’s sometimes hard to accept.

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James Kendrick

a study in amorality disguised as a sometimes shocking black comedy

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