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Because Le Boucher is primarily a narrative, because it moves from scene to scene discretely, with visible growths and amplifications, its realism conveys an almost anthropological charm. The story makes an explicit link between the drives and aspirations of the Cro-Magnon man and the diverted energies of us, his descendants. Sublimation, murder, and love are three traditionally heavy themes, and the fact that Chabrol sets them in a narrative (rather than historical, or surrealistic, or impressionistic) context allows them to assume the same weight that, say, Freudian psychopathology plays in Alice in Wonder-land...
Entries: a gopher named Broke, a crow named Magnon, a donkey named Hodey, and another donkey (German) named Shane, a rabbit named Transit, a horse named Greeley, a sparrow called Agnew, an asp named Pidistra, an aardvark called A-million-miles-for-one-of-your-smiles. Also, reversing the order, a rat named Frank Lloyd, a collie named Melon, a pair of egrets called Miss Otis. Any more of that from the Caen guru, and his readers will all be like a raven named Stark...
...altered ego, she then lights out for Hollywood to claim half of an acting school owned by Myron's uncle, Buck Loner (John Huston). Once she implants herself as a teacher there, she decides to initiate her program of conquest of the male by sexually humiliating a Cro-Magnon pupil named Rusty Godowsky (Roger Herren). That task done, in a scene so tasteless that it represents some sort of nadir in American cinema, she fobs Rusty off on a horny old talent agent (Mae West) and puts a light finishing touch on her dark enterprise by trying to seduce...
...four French schoolboys in 1940, man returned to the scene. He brought with him a mysterious blight that threatened to obliterate in a few short years the magnificent red cows, free-floating horses and other majestic creatures drawn so long ago on the cavern walls by talented Cro-Magnon artists. Now the archaeological crisis has apparently passed. French scientists have successfully diagnosed the illness of the ancient art gallery and prescribed a modern cure...
...successful that scientists and other selected visitors are now again being allowed into the cave to study the paintings. If adequate protection against new contamination can be devised, Lefevre and Laporte hope that the public also may some day again be allowed to see the remarkable artistry of Cro-Magnon...