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Le Boucher

Original title: Le boucher
  • 1970
  • Unrated
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Le Boucher (1970)
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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 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 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.

  • Director
    • Claude Chabrol
  • Writer
    • Claude Chabrol
  • Stars
    • Stéphane Audran
    • Jean Yanne
    • Antonio Passalia
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    9K
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    • Director
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Writer
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Stars
      • Stéphane Audran
      • Jean Yanne
      • Antonio Passalia
    • 50User reviews
    • 50Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Bande-annonce [OV]
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    Le Boucher (1970)
    Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne in Le Boucher (1970)
    Jean Yanne in Le Boucher (1970)

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    Stéphane Audran
    Stéphane Audran
    • Hélène
    Jean Yanne
    Jean Yanne
    • Popaul…
    Antonio Passalia
    • Angelo
    Pascal Ferone
    • Père Cahrpy…
    Mario Beccara
    • Léon Hamel
    William Guérault
    • Charles
    Roger Rudel
    • Commissaire Grumbach…
    • Director
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Writer
      • Claude Chabrol
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    • Trivia
      Claude Chabrol was famous for his drunken antics on movie sets. Stéphane Audran remembers that, one day during the shooting of Le Boucher (1970), he drank so much wine that he had to be brought away with a cart.
    • Goofs
      When the blood from a murder victim drips down onto a girl from a cliff above, the hand shown dripping the blood looks fake.
    • Quotes

      Popaul: But, shit, I asked you if I kissed you now, what would you say?

      Hélène: I'd say nothing, but please don't.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Butterfly (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      Capri Petite Île
      Music by Dominique Zardi

      Lyrics by Dominique Zardi

      Performed by Dominique Zardi

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    Chabrol at his best
    From the opening title sequences we are drawn into a world torn between the veneer of civilization and the desperate struggle of the caves. Two very different and yet lonely souls meet and fall in love. Cliched, yes, but it is not the concier of love that drives this film, it is the inevitable conflict, the inevitable discovery that all is not as it seems. there is something dreadful haunting the serenity of the Dordogne valley and chabrol is going to give it every twist and turn it deserves.

    Stephane Audran and Jean Yanne are not the most likely lovers, yet once they meet their attraction works we believe in them. We hope with Helene for the best and we fear with Popaul for the worst in humanity.

    Ultimately the truth must come forth and when it does we believe in the truth of the moment. The characterizations are flawless. This is perhaps Chabrols best work dark moody and so tightly constructed that one must remember to breathe. (Though I must confess that I loved The Story of Women- and Madame Bovary as well)

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    • Mar 14, 1999

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    • Release date
      • December 19, 1971 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Italy
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The Butcher
    • Filming locations
      • Trémolat, Dordogne, France(town)
    • Production companies
      • Les Films de la Boétie
      • Euro International Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $474,458
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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