The Butcher
starring: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara
directed by: Claude Chabrol
directed by: Claude Chabrol
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Binding: DVD
Brand: PATHFINDER HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0825307906295
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Manufacturer: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 26429
Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 1971
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Editorial Review:
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Le Boucher (The Butcher) is possibly Claude Chabrol's best known and critically acclaimed film. At a friend's wedding, Helen meets Popaul (Yanne), an ex-soldier with combat honors from Algeria and Indo-China, who has returned to his hometown and the family trade of butchery. The two are attracted to each other, but Helene is reluctant to get involved, as a previous lover has hurt her. Shortly after Popaul's arrival in town, the body of a murdered girl is found. When Helene discovers a second victim and a vital piece of evidence that seems to link Popaul to the murders, she reluctantly suspects her new found friend. Consistently taut, with engrossing twists, Le Boucher (The Butcher) is an intense and enthralling thriller.
Amazon.com:
This 1969 masterpiece by Claude Chabrol is a high point of the French New Wave director's mid-career, as well as that of actress Stephane Audran, Chabrol's then-wife. Audran plays a lonely schoolteacher who develops an inexplicable draw toward an ex-army butcher (Jean Yanne) who may or may not be a serial killer plaguing a small town. Drawing on Hitchcockian themes of exchanged guilt and shared secrets, Chabrol constructs an extraordinary relationship between the two characters that marries unspoken self-awareness with constant suspense over the unresolved nature of their bond. The film becomes so responsive to their tiny, meaningful gestures, their pregnant silences, and the comic-tragic synchronicity of their insulated world that the mere blinking of an elevator light speaks volumes about the hell of privileged knowledge. Le Boucher returned Chabrol to the backdrop of the French provinces, which he had visited before in his debut, Le Beau Serge, and later in La Ceremonie. --Tom Keogh
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- ONE OF THE BEST FRENCH MOVIES.The performance of Jean Yanne is breast taking. His female partner Stephane Audran is elegant, sensible, ... Read More
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- SuspensefulThis is the second Claude Chabrol-directed movie that I have seen. I wrote somewhat critically of the first ... Read More
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- One of Chabrol's best - just don't expect a thrillerLe Boucher/The Butcher is one that falls into the love it or hate it camp. Certainly by modern standards, Claude ... Read More
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- Where's the suspense?Right away you know the killer and the explanation for his crimes, so it is all very predictable.
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- Inevitably, Bad Things HappenHelene Daville (Stephane Audran) is the school mistress in Tremolat, a quiet village in the Perigord region of France. ... Read More
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