chabrol triumph and also stephane audran fine performance while only le festin de babette will give her a part as strong a this one . she play a luminous radiant beam schoolteacher and teach her pupil spell with a little help from honore de balzac and dance with le menuet du bourgeois gentilhomme and a molière lully collaboration . she epitomize honesty and loyalty and innocence and devotion to her work . in direct contrast to her and we have popaul and the butcher and masterfully play by jean yanne ( he never be as good a with chabrol representplease and please and do see que la bête meure ( the beast must die ) ) representhe obviously in love with hélène or audran but he realize the gap between them . he a crude uneducated brute and but his clumsiness be so touching you side with him . but we know from the start that would not be a happy story representthe first scene and deal with cro magnon in dark cave herald a story of blood and bestiality . popaul be cro magnon and but he also a victim of the war they wag with his blood . chabrol camera insist on the war memorial and this inhuman piece of stone surround by four shell . look be more important than word between popaul and hélène and and a she begin to comprehend the horror of the situation and we know and that in spite of what popaul have do and she feel for him . chabrol excels in depict a small village and french critic often compare him to an entomologist . le boucher remain his fine work to date .