# The Butcher (1970)

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**Original title**: *Le Boucher*
**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Claude Chabrol
**Written by**: Claude Chabrol
**Starring**: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Roger Rudel, Antonio Passalia, Mario Beccara, William Guérault

> *An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Parisian suburb in the damp tail-end of winter, the butcher’s chilled steel cleaver ringing one more time.

An unassuming butcher shares a nightly table with a prim schoolteacher while above their street a blade cuts loose.

Claude Chabrol’s crime-classic sharpens tension like the honed edge it hides.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, slow-burn

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