The Butcher (1970)
Claude Chabrol · 93 min
The Butcher screens 6 times at BFI Southbank between Wednesday 9 September and Tuesday 6 October.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Le Boucher + intro by season curator Catherine Wheatley
Philosophical Screens: Le Boucher
What it is
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.