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Directed by CLAUDE CHABROL...
Screenplay by CLAUDE CHABROL...
...this trim, beautifully managed psychological thriller, a series of bizarre murders takes place. The mystery is not whodunit, but why; for Director Claude Chabrol (This Man Must Die) is fascinated by motivation, not detection. "I am not interested in solving puzzles," he has explained. "I am interested in studying the behavior of people involved in murder...
...Boucher is rich in its details of village life, a deceptively benign milieu for such a sinister film. It begins with a magnificent scene of a wedding, where the butcher and the teacher meet. It is the bride at this wedding who will become one of his victims. In Chabrol's hands, such pat plotting seems part of a fateful, remorseless order...
...plan to kill this day while the killing goes on in Indochina? What guts have you found that meet MWF at noon? Who's on Dick Cavett tonight? Did you read the latest message from the Weather underground? When's your book coming out? Have you seen the new Chabrol flick? Isn't it wonderful that since I've been here we got rid of the coat-and-tie rule and parietals...