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Fernand Coquet appears in Série noire, the film adaptation of the book by Jim Thompson A Hell of a Woman, first published in 1954.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Série noire. Poster of the 1979 movie and cover of the 1954 book, A Hell of a Woman
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A Hell of a Woman
Jim Thompson, 1954
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Série noire
Alain Corneau, 1979

Franck Poupart is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him when he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona, an underage prostitute he meets early in the film, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt.