Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.
Acting
Victor Lanoux's sweaty desperation is chef's kiss.
Writing
Every solution makes everything magnificently worse.
Director
Sylvain Madigan
Victor Lanoux
François Marboni
Pauline Lafont
Rachel
Marie Laforêt
Marthe Marboni
Jacques Penot
Alexandre Ragueneau
Michel Aumont
Inspector Marchandon
Martin Lamotte
Denis
Jean-François Stévenin
Djebel Zanera
Aurelle Doazan
Estelle Marboni
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Thibaud
Claude Chabrol
The commissioner
Charlotte de Turckheim
The prostitute, friend of Rachel
Patrick Braoudé
The clerk
Jeanne Herviale
Alexandre's grandmother
Benoît Ferreux
A killer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sylvain Madigan made exactly two features; this was his last before vanishing into French TV obscurity.
The film satirizes Mitterrand-era bourgeois anxiety—François's butcher shop symbolizes crumbling small-business masculinity under socialist France.
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