Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- vietnam veteran
- province
- butcher
- murder
- french noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Stéphane Audran
Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
Jean Yanne
Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'
Roger Rudel
Commissioner Grumbach
Antonio Passalia
Angelo
- Mario Beccara — Léon Hamel
- William Guérault — Charles
- Pascal Ferone — Father Charpy
- Directed
- Claude Chabrol
- Written
- Claude Chabrol
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 289 ratings
- Studio
- Les Films La Boétie, Euro International Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
