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 ...

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a ...

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film ...

Considered Claude Chabrol's masterpiece, Le Boucher is a Hitchcockian thriller about a schoolteacher with a broken heart who moves to a small village in order ...

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Sep 3, 2021 · It might be one of the most underrated films I've ever seen. It has shades of Buñuel and Hitchcock yet still has a unique style all on its own.

Nov 23, 2003 · She is a school mistress, he is a butcher, their everyday lives obscure great loneliness, and their ideas about sex are peculiarly skewed.

Elegantly beautiful Stephane Audran ( The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle) ), Chabrol's reel- and real life muse, plays Helene, headmistress of the local ...

Sep 1, 2021 · 'Le Boucher' shows Chabrol in his element – the film has psychologically unhinged and complex characters. This is a classic example of a 'Not a ...

Le Boucher. Directed by Claude Chabrol. Synopsis. An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a ...