The Butcher
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Movie Reviews of The Butcher
Movie Review: An extremely good movie !
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is simply greatful . But the charm lives precisely in that intelectual pleasure which some masterpieces challenges the viewer .
Two characters ; she is a school teacher and he is a simple butcher . but she establishes with him a very strange link with the butcher of that little village in Perigord .
But she has a sexual frustration and her job and the bitter memories of an previous ill fated realationship .
But a serie of brutal murders will convince her about the blame of her suitor .
A superb rendition to Hitchcock but developed in a very french style . And since the film flows slow paced , th new tricks and clues wil be a feast for your mind .
The fertile creativity of Chabrol one of the fundamental icons of the French New Wave, allowed him to build a fascinating story loaded with obsession , mystery and suspense .
Watch this film and enjoy it till the last shot .
Movie Review: ...a passionate story in the backdrop of murder...
Summary: 5 Stars
Le Boucher is a passionate story about the French countryside butcher, Popaul (Jean Yanne) falling in love with the town's head teacher, Helene (Stéphane Audran), which is set in a backdrop of a series of grisly murders. Helene is hesitant on entrusting Popaul, as she has been burnt before in a previous relationship, but Popaul remains devoted on pursuing Helene's trust and affection. Slowly, Helene opens up to Popaul's devotion to find herself in a troubling situation. La Boucher is slow paced and this is done through tedious effects that provide a strong idea of Popaul's determination to gain Helene's affection. This leaves the viewer with an outstanding cinematic experience that offers much thought of the psychology behind the ending.Movie Review: choice meat
Summary: 5 Stars
The pretty school mistress in a french provincial town strikes up a friendship with the butcher-- torn between the pleasure of their quiet friendship and her suspicion that he might be a murderer, she hovers between warmth and fright.
Chabrol's film tells a tight little tale (87 minutes), is quite beautiful to watch with it's lovely sixties color and camera angle's, and is wonderfully ambigous in it's depiction of moral's and affection.
If you're into well-crafted suspense, do yourself a favor and watch it.
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.Movie Review: Slow Yet Taut, Powerful Thriller that Stays With You
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Butcher," ("Le boucher") (1969) is one of the best-known films of French director Claude Chabrol, (Claude Chabrol Collection), one of the leading lights of the French school of filmmaking known as the new wave (le nouvelle vague); he just passed quite recently. It's in full, gorgeous color, set in the lush, highly fertile, mountainous region of Perigord, France, and, aside from perhaps some clothes that look odd to a contemporary eye, has hardly dated at all. It's a cerebral, rather abstract drama/thriller, built along thoughtful, slower, European lines rather than fast, fast, fast American; still, it clocks in at a tidy 93 minutes, and is considered to show the strong influence of Alfred Hitchcock, thriller director par excellence (Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection).
Elegantly beautiful Stephane Audran (The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle)), Chabrol's reel- and real life muse, plays Helene, headmistress of the local elementary school, who lives above her shop. She is thin as a stylish woman should be, high of cheekbone, dressed in clothes that are evidently the height of contemporary chic, with her hair done by Carita. She loves the school's children and has good times with them. Nevertheless, she has never gotten over a bad previous relationship, and is repressed - and lonely. She finally, haltingly, begins an unlikely affair with the mysterious Popaul (Jean Yanne:Indochine). He has recently returned from the army and Vietnam to the village in which he was born and raised, to take over his father's butcher shop, which he too lives above. He is dour and working class, not particularly handsome, considered beneath her in village society; yet makes himself useful to her, gives her prime cuts of meat, paints her quarters. He becomes, in fact, her primary adult relationship - she really has no one else in her life --nor does he. However, soon local women turn up gruesomely slaughtered, in sadistic Jack the Ripper style. It appears that a serial killer has come to the vicinity, and Helene must begin to suspect the butcher.
The countryside, and the children, have been photographed with great affection and clarity. In addition to its truffles, mushrooms, and plentiful harvests, Perigord is also known for its colorful prehistoric cave paintings, and we see them too. The original, atmospheric score is by Pierre Jansen. Director Chabrol does a good job of building tension that mounts as Helene is forced to reach heart-breaking conclusions. It's a powerful film that is likely to stay with you for some time.