Le Boucher / The Butcher (1970)
A Film by Claude Chabrol
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 01:28:39 | 4,33 Gb
Audio: AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track) - English, French, Spanish | Subtitles: English
Genre: Thriller | Nominated for BAFTA Film Award | France, Italy
Sexual frustration is the focus of this Hitchcockian thriller from French director Claude Chabrol. Schoolteacher Hélène (Stéphane Audran) comes to a small Périgord village to begin a new job. She is soon romanced by the local butcher, Popaul (Jean Yanne), but is distracted by her job and memories of a previous ill-fated relationship. A series of brutal murders of young women and a dropped cigarette-lighter raise Hélène's suspicions about her suitor, whose pitiable, depraved compulsions lead to a gruesome conclusion. Audran, who was Chabrol's wife at the time, makes an engaging heroine, and Yanne is simultaneously scary and pathetic as the obsessive butcher.