After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
FR
Genres:
Drama, Thriller
Release:
May 1998
Production:
Les Cinémas de la Zone, Love Streams Productions, Canal+, PROCIREP, Strand Releasing
Cast:
Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Martine Audrain, Zaven, Jean-François Rauger, Guillaume Nicloux, Olivier Doran, Aïssa Djabri, Serge Faurie, Frédéric Pfohl, Stéphanie Sec, Arlette Balkis, Gil Bertharion Jr., Rado, Nicolas Jouhet, Ahmed Bounacir, Roland Guéridon, Hervé Gueridon, Sophie Nicolle, Paule Abecassis, Marie-Madeleine Denecheau, Robert Roy, Joël Leculle, Denis Falgoux, Marc Faure, Gérard Ortega, Stephane Derderian, Alain Pierre, Sylvie Raymond
Tags:
daughter, suicide, work, nihilism, gun, killing, crisis, butcher, revenge, slaughterhouse, working class, jobless, social reject, economic crisis, revenge killing, thought, unemployed, new french extremism, antisocial behavior, lower class, poor man, industrial town, ex-prisoner, misanthrope, inner thoughts, incestuous fantasy, narrator
