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Le Boucher is a 1970 psychological thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne. Set in the village of Trémolat, it tells the story of butcher Popaul who falls in love with Hélène, the head teacher of the school, while a murder spree is taking place in the area.
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Claude Chabrol’s *Le Boucher* (1970), a psychological thriller set in a small French town, is a curious paradox in the history of cinema. While it contains moments of extraordinary brilliance, like the discovery of a corpse during a school trip, the work as a whole struggles to justify its status as a canonical masterpiece. Yet these isolated triumphs exist within a narrative that often feels disjointed, overly reli…More
