Clean Slate

IMDb link: 0082206
IMDb rating: 7.3 (7,231 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Stephane Audran and others

Release date: 4 Nov 1981
Release year: 1981
Runtime: 128 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: french west africa, unhappy marriage, serial killer, murder, year 1938, lust, schoolteacher, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, french colony

Plot:

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.

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