The Butcher
by Claude Chabrol
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Actor: Antonio Passalia, Jean Yanne, Mario Beccara, Pascal Ferone, St?phane AudranDirector: Claude Chabrol
Brand: PATHFINDER HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Movie Reviews of The Butcher
Movie Review: ONE OF THE BEST FRENCH MOVIES.
Summary: 5 Stars
The performance of Jean Yanne is breast taking. His female partner Stephane Audran is elegant, sensible, graceful. The Director, Claude Chabrol, is at the peake of his carrier.
Summary of The Butcher
Le Boucher (The Butcher) is possibly Claude Chabrol's best known and critically acclaimed film. At a friend's wedding Helen meets Popaul (Yanne) an ex-soldier with combat honors from Algeria and Indo-China who has returned to his hometown and the family trade of butchery. The two are attracted to each other but Helene is reluctant to get involved as a previous lover has hurt her. Shortly after Popaul's arrival in town the body of a murdered girl is found. When Helene discovers a second victim and a vital piece of evidence that seems to link Popaul to the murders she reluctantly suspects her new found friend. Consistently taut with engrossing twists Le Boucher (The Butcher) is an intense and enthralling thriller. System Requirements:Run Time: 93 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: NR UPC: 825307906295 Manufacturer No: PH90629This 1969 masterpiece by Claude Chabrol is a high point of the French New Wave director's mid-career, as well as that of actress Stephane Audran, Chabrol's then-wife. Audran plays a lonely schoolteacher who develops an inexplicable draw toward an ex-army butcher (Jean Yanne) who may or may not be a serial killer plaguing a small town. Drawing on Hitchcockian themes of exchanged guilt and shared secrets, Chabrol constructs an extraordinary relationship between the two characters that marries unspoken self-awareness with constant suspense over the unresolved nature of their bond. The film becomes so responsive to their tiny, meaningful gestures, their pregnant silences, and the comic-tragic synchronicity of their insulated world that the mere blinking of an elevator light speaks volumes about the hell of privileged knowledge. Le Boucher returned Chabrol to the backdrop of the French provinces, which he had visited before in his debut, Le Beau Serge, and later in La Ceremonie. --Tom Keogh
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