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Le Boucher a.k.a. 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.
May 8, 2022 · Le Boucher by Claude Chabrol. Publication date 1970 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Topics Cinema Language French. No copyright infringement
Dec 19, 1971 · 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.
An in-depth review of the film Le Boucher (1970), aka The Butcher, directed by Claude Chabrol, featuring Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia.
Le Boucher is one of Claude Chabrol ’s greatest films and his most overtly Hitchcockian. The small town location, the nerve-jangling suspense, the theme of exchanged guilt are all reminiscent of Hitchcock’s films of course, but Chabrol here brings his own unique perspective to the story.
Popaul is a butcher, a recent veteran of two brutal wars, and a murderer preying on a series of local women. Hélène is a teacher and the school’s headmistress. She lives above the schoolrooms, and the “ville” in her surname Daville alludes to human settlements, i.e. civilization.
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.
