Dining-Drinking
April, 1972
On one level, Le Boucher (The Butcher) might easily qualify as a fine thriller, the sort of hair-raiser that whoops to a climax when a sexy schoolmistress in a French provincial village finds herself alone at midnight--the only woman still alive who can positively identify the homicidal maniac at large in the district. Very little is missing here, in terms of sheer suspense. But trust Claude Chabrol, a film maker whose style is characterized by restraint and precision, to add resonant undertones...
