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A Balasaur Score of 80 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%. Critics rate it 27 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 93% of the 353 1970s thriller movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 27 points higher than audiences do.
290 audience votes
Key crew
- Claude ChabrolDirector
- Claude ChabrolScreenplay
- Pierre JansenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Stéphane AudranHélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
- Jean YannePaul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'
- Roger RudelCommissioner Grumbach
- Antonio PassaliaAngelo
- Mario BeccaraLéon Hamel
- William GuéraultCharles
- Pascal FeroneFather Charpy
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Themes
vietnam veteranprovincebutchermurderfrench noir
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