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The Butcher is a 1970 French psychological thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne. Set in the village of Trémolat, it tells the story of butcher Popaul who falls in love with Hélène, the head teacher of the school, while a murder spree is taking place in the area.
Dec 19, 1971 · The Butcher: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone. An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Claude Chabrol
- 1971-12-19
May 8, 2022 · Just watched this Chabrol movie on the heels of Jeanne Diekmann by Chantal Akerman for a French Cine ClubI I'm a part of and here we are once again watching characters who seem completely stilted and unable to feel or express normal human emotions?
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- poorskeleton
Nov 23, 2003 · Le Boucher / The Butcher. Jean Yanne and Stephane Audran in Claude Chabrol's thriller masterpiece "Le Boucher." She is a school mistress, he is a butcher, their everyday lives obscure great loneliness, and their ideas about sex are peculiarly skewed. They should never have met each other.
At a wedding in a quiet rural French village, school headmistress Helene (Stéphane Audran) meets local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne). Though the reserved Helene is still traumatized...
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- Claude Chabrol
- PG
- Stéphane Audran
An in-depth review of the film Le Boucher (1970), aka The Butcher, directed by Claude Chabrol, featuring Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia.
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
