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Le Boucher Reviews

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Very little happens, and all of the sordid criminal events take place off screen in Claude Chabrol's exquisitely detached and austerely abstract murder mystery set in the Perigord region of central France. At the centre of the intrigue is Chabrol's frequent collaborator and wife, Stephane Audran, who plays Mademoiselle Helene, .. Read more

Starring	Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Mario Beccaria
Director	Claude Chabrol
Genres	Thriller

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- Classically simple but relentlessly probing thriller, set in a French village shadowed by the presence of a compulsive... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17
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  slice of life in late 1960's rural France
  
  ...so to speak.
  
  Anyway that's a large part of the movie's appeal for me.
  
  But okay the serial killer plot works for me too, for ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 15 Sep 2004 at 22:21
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  Low-key, but absorbing.
  
  This quiet but chilling tale of an idyllic French village with a murderer lurking in the background is memorably presented: the photography is beautiful, the ... read more »
  
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- 949965
- - Antiquary
  - 52 reviews
  - Aberdeen
  - 31 Dec 2010 at 17:26
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  Intruiging title, enjoyable film
  
  The film actually focusses on the school teacher rather than the butcher. Her character is developed far more than his. Consequently I found the ending ... read more »
  
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- - Casualcritic
  - 42 reviews
  - Boston Spa
  - 09 Apr 2010 at 14:18
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  Spellbinding
  
  Good build-up to the climax in this film, and some twists and turns to keep you guessing about when that 'climax' is going to come. The last few ... read more »
  
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- - Rosster
  - 39 reviews
  - Airdrie
  - 07 Mar 2010 at 18:13
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  boucher
  
  I watched this on tv when kid and it came up same this time around. There's not great deal of suspense unless you get taken in and think about it which ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 28 May 2009 at 22:11
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  Watchable and Enjoyable
  
  Watchable, enjoyable and suspenseful. Recommended if you like these sorts of french films.
  
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  - Wirral
  - 25 Jan 2009 at 16:11
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  Charming and ticks the FRENCH box very well but a little bit, hmmm...
  
  Being a 24 carat francophile I loved so much about this film. It was a real slice of the France we all wished we could luxuriate in without any serious health ... read more »
  
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  - Liverpool
  - 30 Nov 2008 at 16:04
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  POINTLESS
  
  I initially liked the atmosphere of the film, reminiscent of some classic favourites; warm and yet slightly chilling. Yet the warmth must have thawed the chill... read more »
  
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  - LONDON
  - 08 Nov 2008 at 13:28
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  Prime cuts
  
  Good but not great. a French Jagged Edge, a lot of style, quite a lot of suspense, lovely camerawork. The apparently, on the face of it, idyllic French rural ... read more »
  
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- - Proactive
  - 24 reviews
  - London
  - 10 Sep 2008 at 22:08
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  Customer Review
  
  Chabrol sets the scene and tees the plot up expertly as always, but the film doesn't really follow through on its early promise. Unlike the best Chabrol, ... read more »
  
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  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  I was a little disappointed by the film as it gets a top-rating in Halliwell implying that it is one of the best films ever made, which it isn't. It's ... read more »
  
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  slice of life in late 1960's rural France
  
  ...so to speak.
  
  Anyway that's a large part of the movie's appeal for me.
  
  But okay the serial killer plot works for me too, for ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 18379
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  - London
  - 15 Sep 2004 at 22:21
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  25 Years since I've seen this
  
  I just spotted this when browsing through lists of french films and thought, I wonder if was really as good as I remembered.
  
  Well, it is!
  
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  - Glossop, Derbyshire
  - 28 Apr 2005 at 12:56
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  Worth a Butchers!
  
  Claude Chabrol's tale of the nascent love affair between a lonely butcher (Michel Bouquet)and schoolmistress (Stephane Audran)in a village under the shadow ... read more »
  
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- - Grizzlybear
  - Swindon, England
  - 02 Nov 2005 at 12:33
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  hitch with garlic hold the beef
  
  Why are the french so much better at making homages to Alfred Hitchcock than American films.
  
  For every poor US thriller there are loads of underatted... read more »
  
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  - guildford surrey
  - 22 Mar 2006 at 18:09
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  Very French, very 1969
  
  If you like french films and you like films of this era, you'll like this. I really enjoyed it, but my friends found it hard going ... I ended up turning ... read more »
  
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- - Glenn Alderman
  - London
  - 05 Dec 2004 at 22:29
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  Gallic Hitchcock?
  
  Hitchcock comparisons abound with Chabrol. However, you may be hard pressed to see anything other than a superficial similarity between them here.
  
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- - Shane Bordas
  - London, England
  - 25 Aug 2006 at 00:14
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  The Wrong Kind of Butcher
  
  Le Boucher is an atmospheric thriller, in the style of Hitchcock but set in a milieu not visited by Hitchcock: a French village where everyone knows everyone ... read more »
  
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- - Fleurdelys
  - London
  - 20 Dec 2005 at 22:25
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  mystery meat
  
  the real mystery is why would stephane audran's schoolteacher be interested in the boorish (not shy as the pro reviewer describes him) butcher,maybe meat ... read more »
  
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- - meat is murder
  - so don't eat it
  - 14 Sep 2005 at 19:48
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  Seminal
  
  Sunday night televsion seems to be filled with murder mystery police procedural dramas these days and the continental godfather of all of 'em is Claude ... read more »
  
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- - Ruairi
  - Bedfordshire
  - 25 Oct 2004 at 11:31
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  Le Boucher
  
  When a spate of murders begins in her small town a teacher (Audran) begins to suspect that her new friend, the local butcher (Yanne), may be the killer.
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- - SAI81
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  - Tonbridge
  - 04 May 2008 at 10:50

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- Le Boucher
  
  Very little happens, and all of the sordid criminal events take place off screen in Claude Chabrol's exquisitely detached and austerely abstract murder mystery set in the Perigord region of central France. At the centre of the intrigue is Chabrol's frequent collaborator and wife, Stephane Audran, ...