A schoolteacher and a butcher strike up a tender, tentative friendship in a small Périgord village, just as a series of murders unsettle the local community. A work of extraordinary restraint, in which the landscape itself seems to harbour violence. Le Boucher profits from Jean Yanne’s remarkable performance – one of the great, mostly unsung, achievements of French cinema. Also on BFI Player. See the Philosophical Screens discussion on Le Boucher in the BFI Blue Room following the screening of the film on Wednesday 9 September. Screen: NFT1. Screening details: Special screening available; English language subtitles.
