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Director
  
Music director
  
Pierre Jansen

Duration
  

Country
  
FranceItaly

7.6/10
IMDb


Genre
  
Thriller

Screenplay
  
Writer
  
Claude Chabrol (by)

Language
  
French

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Release date
  
February 27, 1970

Initial release
  
February 27, 1970 (France)

Cast
  
(Hélène David, dite «Melle Hélène»), (Paul Thomas, dit « Popaul »),
Roger Rudel
(Commissaire Grumbach),
Mario Beccara
(Leon Hamel),
William Guérault
(Charles),
Pascal Ferone
(Père Charpy)

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Le Boucher (English: The Butcher) is a 1970 French thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film had a total of 1,148,554 admissions in France.

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Plot synopsis

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Hélène Daville (Stéphane Audran) is a confident, slightly naïve young teacher who is adored by her pupils at the school where she works and lives. She meets the local butcher, Paul Thomas, called "Popaul" (Jean Yanne), at a wedding ceremony, and they strike up a close but platonic relationship. The film examines how Hélène handles her suspicion of Popaul as a series of women in the small town fall victim to an unknown murderer.

Themes in the film

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Chabrol plays on conventionality, as it is represented in film. The distinctions between murderer and victim are at times blurred. The ideal small community that Chabrol establishes seems to mirror so many others and the characters he uses represent the eroding authenticity that is characteristic in films which seek to capture an “old world feel.” Popaul comes across as an innocent, laid-back, simple butcher, who mentions his experiences in Algeria and Indochina repeatedly. Hélène is admired in the community for her selfless dedication to children — she forgoes a personal life for servitude. Chabrol hints that these characters are not as they seem. Repression and representation seem to be themes Chabrol works with in the film. In confronting repression and representation as Chabrol does, a character, who seems as altruistic as Hélène, takes on a new connotation. Little does Hélène realise that she is driving Popaul to these acts, leaving him stranded with his demons and self-disgust.

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Even before he met Hélène, Popaul was tortured. Towards the end of the film, he delivers a soliloquy that allows the viewer to sympathize with him:

Cast

  • Stéphane Audran as Hélène Daville
  • Jean Yanne as Paul Thomas ("Popaul")
  • Antonio Passalia as Angelo
  • Pascal Ferone as Père Cahrpy
  • Mario Beccara as Leon Hamel
  • William Guérault as Charles
  • Roger Rudel as Police Inspector Grumbach
  • References

    Le Boucher Wikipedia
    The Butcher (1970 film) IMDbThe Butcher (1970 film) Roger EbertThe Butcher (1970 film) Rotten TomatoesLe Boucher themoviedb.org


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