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  • Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara
  • Directors: Claude Chabrol
  • Writers: Claude Chabrol
  • Producers: André Génovès
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Arrow Films
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Jul 2004
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00028HC4W
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,287 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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, the beautiful and brash, yet shy and retiring local school teacher. As the film begins, Mlle. Helene is at a festive local wedding enjoying the company of brusque and earnest Popaul, the local butcher. Popaul speaks roughly of his bloody experiences as a soldier, yet shows a sentimental gentility towards Mlle. Helene. As the two engage in a sweet, if unlikely, courtship, the town falls victim to a serial killer who is brutally murdering local women--including the bride at the wedding. The atmosphere of the film becomes rife with subtle yet chilling suspense as Mlle. Helene simultaneously draws closer to Popaul, just as she is beginning to suspect him as the murderer. As the tension builds, so does the intricate interplay between the conflicting yet similar characters of Mlle. Helene and Popaul, resulting in a final explosion of violent acts.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One of Chabrol's best - just don't expect a thriller, 12 April 2006
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Le Boucher/The Butcher is one that falls into the love it or hate it camp. Certainly by modern standards, Claude Chabrol makes little of his premise - smalltown schoolteacher Stephane Audran falls for smalltown butcher and serial killer Jean Yanne - either as a suspense vehicle or moral drama. There are occasional hints of something deeper in the butcher's descriptions of the atrocities he saw in Algeria and IndoChina and which he has brought home with him to the outwardly idyllic backwater and scene of his unhappy childhood, but they're just left for the audience to make the connections. As usual, Chabrol is more interested in milieu than the crimes themselves, and his sense of place and community is impeccable without being forced, as his direction. Although the script is fairly thin, it perfectly captures the way comparative isolation and lack of diversion brings people into each other's spheres more than burning passion (in fact, Yanne reveals that its her ability to calm his passions that makes her so special to him). And it's telling that the two characters never have a romance: they don't even share a kiss. It's more akin to a drawn-out old-fashioned courtship - it's just that one of them happens to be a serial killer.

One thing that is particularly striking is that way he is able to use long, unshowy takes (some lasting several minutes) simply because his actors are up to the challenge, giving the film an unforced, natural flow. There's imagination and striking imagery when required - the film's most tense moment takes place during a fade to black, while a night time drive takes on a disembodied quality - but he's not out to batter his audience with technique. Quietly impressive, but you may need to have lived in a small town to get the most out of it.

Arrow's UK PAL DVD does offer a better transfer than the US Pathfinder DVD in a slightly cropped widescreen ratio, but contains no extras.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Creepy character study, 22 Aug 2004
By P. Sanders "prhsuk" (Belfast) - See all my reviews
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I first saw "Le Boucher" at college when I found it in the video library there. I've been waiting ages for it to come out on DVD. This release has no extras, but the film is worth it.

Reminiscent of Hitchcock, the film tells the story of a teacher in a rural French village who begins to fall for the local butcher. But when several girls are murdered, events lead her to suspect him.

"Le Boucher" maintains a leisurely pace throughout that matches the pace of village life. Rather than relying on shocks, it builds tension and suspense - esp effective are the scenes of the schooltrip and the finale in the schoolhouse.

The scenery is beautiful, direction and performances subtle. Highly recommended

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars you will regret missing this, 27 Nov 2004
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mesmerising movie..horrific murders as a lonely schoolteacher falls for the loal butcher..did he do them? more than just an exciting mystery..the flavour and colours of local France, the gradual pace building in suspense, the fact that we suddenly feel for the murderer's humanity, the car driving him to hospital at the end through country roads where the long and winding puddles of rain start to look like blood..Chabrol's best for me.
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