Le Boucher

Chabrol’s most celebrated film sees a friendship between a teacher and local butcher darken as a series of murders unsettles life in their village.

Hélène, a schoolteacher, and Popaul, a butcher, strike up a tender, tentative friendship in a small Périgord village, just as a series of murders unsettles the local community. Suspicion falls on Popaul, and Hélène finds herself torn between her growing feelings for him and the unsettling possibility that he might be the killer.

A work of extraordinary restraint, Chabrol’s most celebrated and sinister film distils his love of Hitchcock into a slow-burning psychological thriller. Contains scenes of graphic violence and injury, including harm towards children.