The Butcher (Le Boucher)
<b>Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/nouvelle-vague/">Nouvelle Vague</a> films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately.</b> A stoic butcher and a repressed headteacher strike up an unlikely relationship in the village of Trémolat - however, a gruesome spate of Ripper-esque homicides breaks out in the area at the same time. An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town. Claude Chabrol directs his wife Stéphane Audran in this finest of collaborations between the married couple. In fact, it's a wonder this film is as good as it is - Chabrol, renowned for drunken antics on set, is remembered by Audran to have drank so much wine during the shooting of <i>The Butcher</i> one day that he had to be taken away from set on a cart! However, despite this, the film is considered to be one of the French New Wave director's greatest films, being listed on Roger Ebert's Great Movies list and included in Steven Schneider's <i>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die</i>.ThrillerPT1H33M152026-02-07Stéphane Audran
Jean Yanne
Roger Rudel
Claude Chabrol
André Génovès
The Butcher (Le Boucher)"The Butcher (Le Boucher)"Showtimes
February 7, 12:45 pm
February 10, 6:00 pm
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