Gross US & Canada
$474,458
Le Boucher
Le Boucher is a film directed by Claude Chabrol.
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- Release date December 19, 1971
- Filming locations Grottes de Cougnac, Payrignac, Lot, France
- Production companies Les Films de la Boétie, Euro International Films
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By Rebeca 2022-10-22 22:22:13
Awaiting Oblivion: Decolonization and Deterritorialization
Excerptions from Jonathan York's "Awaiting Oblivion: Decolonization and Deterritorialization" (2014):
Le Boucher reveals the real of the fictive: the real of memories edited and revised; the real that unfolds in the process of unrealing. The wars of independence may have made Popaul a butcher; but butchering became his metier (occupation) only upon his return to a defamiliarized provincial milieu. Even the conventional patterns of courtship in the provinces have altered. Popaul's...
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By Trenton 2023-09-10 08:52:44
The most touching Libra serial killer. Thrillers like Balzac's novels are so beautiful it leaves me...
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By Jeffry 2023-07-19 10:35:48
The daily life of the estranged town and the secret emotions that don't want to talk about it, the bottomless night behind the branches passing through the car window in the pseudo-subjective shot of the night road drama; Odean's meaningful and empty performance at the end of the film is inexplicable The dead and the Queen of Sweden; the only difference between us and the Cro-Magnons lies in the subsistance; I don't usually think Odeando is pretty, but once you enter flirting mode, you're...
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By Chris 2023-07-10 15:03:28
@CINEFAN 9/10 Chabrol Retro Screening at TK | To fall in love with someone is to separate the other person from the "thing". The same is true for the story, told with restraint (the butcher is so cute, one of my favorite character...
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By Nico 2023-05-08 21:05:05
6.8/10 Strong sense of alienation, the weird soundtrack always surrounds my ears, the plot can be done...
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By Larissa 2023-04-13 05:22:59
Murals resembling bloodstains in the cave. In any case, Chabrol learned well. | Odean is the most forgotten muse of the New...
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Popaul: But, shit, I asked you if I kissed you now, what would you say?
Hélène: I'd say nothing, but please don't.
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Hélène: [Walking through a cavern] You must understand that the instincts, the feelings, and even the intelligence of Cro-Magnon man was definitely human. The only differences to the problem were his needs to survive.
Student: What does "survive" mean?
Hélène: It means to stay alive. He began to draw. Do you know what we call desires when they lose their savage quality? Aspirations. If Cro-Magnon had not survived, the world in which we live wouldn't exist.
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Popaul: If you never make love, you go crazy.
