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.
Acting
Yanne's wounded bull energy, Audran's porcelain tension.
Direction
Chabrol's Hitchcockian restraint—violence implied, never exploited.
Cinematography
Limoges: grey skies, red meat, no escape.
Director
Claude Chabrol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chabrol shot in his hometown of Sardent; the butcher shop was real, still operating.
Often called 'the French Hitchcock,' but Chabrol hated this—he saw his work as class critique disguised as thriller.
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