Le Boucher
Le Boucher (English: The Butcher) is a 1970 French thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film had a total of 1,148,554 admissions in France.
Plot synopsis
Hélène Daville (Stéphane Audran) is a confident, slightly naïve young teacher who is adored by her pupils at the school where she works and lives. She meets the local butcher, Paul Thomas, called "Popaul" (Jean Yanne), at a wedding ceremony, and they strike up a close but platonic relationship. The film examines how Hélène handles her suspicion of Popaul as a series of women in the small town fall victim to an unknown murderer.
Themes in the film
Chabrol plays on conventionality, as it is represented in film. The distinctions between murderer and victim are at times blurred. The ideal small community that Chabrol establishes seems to mirror so many others and the characters he uses represent the eroding authenticity that is characteristic in films which seek to capture an “old world feel.” Popaul comes across as an innocent, laid-back, simple butcher, who mentions his experiences in Algeria and Indochina repeatedly. Hélène is admired in the community for her selfless dedication to children — she forgoes a personal life for servitude. Chabrol hints that these characters are not as they seem. Repression and representation seem to be themes Chabrol works with in the film. In confronting repression and representation as Chabrol does, a character, who seems as altruistic as Hélène, takes on a new connotation. Little does Hélène realise that she is driving Popaul to these acts, leaving him stranded with his demons and self-disgust.
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ALBUMS
- D.R.I. Tribute: We Don't Need Society! released: 2002
D.R.I. Tribute: We Don't Need Society!
Released 2002- Karma
- Plastique
- Reagonomics / Sad to Be
- Mad Man
- Dennis's Problem
- Coffin
- Violent Pacification
- No Sense
- Tear It Down
- My Fate to Hate
- Dry Heaves
- Commuter Man
- Nursing Home Blues
- Busted / Busted Again
- Tone Deaf
- Couch Slouch
- God Is Broke
- Under the Overpass
- I Don't Need Society (live)
- Problem Addict
- Think for Yourself
- Money Stinks
- Snap
- I'd Rather Be Sleeping
- I'm the Liar
- Gone Too Long
- 5 Year Plan
- Closet Punk
- Yes Ma'Am
- Equal People
- Acid Rain
- Slit My Wrist
- Thrash Hard
- Slumlord
- Coffin
- Dry Heaves
- I'd Rather Be Sleeping
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by Radiohead
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by Leonard Cohen
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by Final Fantasy
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by Matt Pond Pa
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by Project 86
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by Residents
THE BUTCHER
by: RadioheadBeauty will destroy your mind
Spare the gory details
Give them gift wrap for the man with everything
Though I lived a lonely life
I was confused
I'm butcher
Feel nothing
As it closes up my arms
The position of the worms
Up, up, through my heart
Into my brain
I'm the big slack basic combination
Cut out
Chop, liver on the block
My heart still pumping
My heart still pumping
He's a warrior, warrior
He's a little bitch coming out of him
He's a warrior, warrior
He's a little bitch coming out of him
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