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Le Boucher (aka The Butcher) (Subtitled) (Wide Screen)
Le Boucher (aka The Butcher) (Subtitled) (Wide Screen)
Stars: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Mario BeccariaDirector: Claude Chabrol
Summary: A beautiful but lonely school teacher in a small French town finds a kindred spirit in the local Butcher. However, as some young women of the town fall victim to a brutal serial killer the teacher begins to suspect her new found companion.
Very little happens, and all of the sordid criminal events take place off screen in Claude Chabrol's exquisitely detached and austerely abstract murder mystery set in the Perigord region of central France. At the centre of the intrigue is Chabrol's frequent collaborator and wife, Stephane Audran, who plays Mademoiselle Helene, the beautiful and brash, yet shy and retiring local school teacher. As the film begins, Mlle. Helene is at a festive local wedding enjoying the company of brusque and earnest Popaul, the local butcher. Popaul speaks roughly of his bloody experiences as a soldier, yet shows a sentimental gentility towards Mlle. Helene. As the two engage in a sweet, if unlikely, courtship, the town falls victim to a serial killer who is brutally murdering local women--including the bride at the wedding. The atmosphere of the film becomes rife with subtle yet chilling suspense as Mlle. Helene simultaneously draws closer to Popaul, just as she is beginning to suspect him as the murderer. As the tension builds, so does the intricate interplay between the conflicting yet similar characters of Mlle. Helene and Popaul, resulting in a final explosion of violent acts.
Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on April 2, 2006 10:50 AM
This French film from 1969 written and directed by Claude Chabrol
and starring Stephane Audran , Jean Yanne , Antonio Passalia and
Mario Beccaria is a neat little piece of French cinema .
Stephane 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 .
Drawing on Hitchcockian themes of exchanged guilt and shared secrets , Chabrol constructs an extraordinary relationship between two characters that marries unspoken self - awareness with constant suspense over the unresolved nature of their bond .
The language is in French with English subtitles .
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