The Butcher
An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors.
A dark French noir thriller that uses an unlikely friendship between two isolated figures as a lens to explore suspicion, class, and the proximity of violence in provincial life.
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.
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