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Lynn Anthony Higgins

Lynn Anthony Higgins is the Edward Tuck Professor Emerita of French Studies at Dartmouth College, where she is also affiliated with the Film & Media Studies Department. She is the author of Bertrand Tavernier (in Manchester University Press’s French Film Directors series) and editor of Bertrand Tavernier: Interviews (in the University Press of Mississippi’s Conversations with Filmmakers series).

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Coup de torchon: “All Crimes Are Collective”

Set in 1930s French West Africa, Bertrand Tavernier’s hard-to-classify adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel Pop. 1280 offers an apocalyptic vision of a society in which institutions have abdicated their moral authority.

By Lynn Anthony Higgins