1970 · thriller · murder · village
The Butcher
Directed by Claude Chabrol1h 33m1970
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.
Our read: The Butcher (1970) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · murder · village entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / murder, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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“You want elegant rural French suspense with repressed romance underneath.”
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