Le Boucher Claude Chabrol A first rate psychological thriller from Claude Chabrol about the evolving relationship of a beautiful schoolteacher and a serial murderer. "In Chabrol's films, the relationships are plotted with a mathematical precision that does not rule out surprising developments" (Roy Armes). With Stephane Audran, Antonio Passallia, Mario Beccaria and Pasquale Ferone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5Ki6O1hpg&feature=related My Favorite Season (Ma Saison Preferee) Andre Techine Techine's fascinating, dark and somber story of a middle-aged brother and sister (Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil), a provincial lawyer and a skilled surgeon, respectively, who begin to come to terms with what they have become professionally and personally when their aging mother (Marthe Villalonge) begins to disintegrate after a stroke. Techine himself describes Ma Saison Preferee as a film "about individuality and the frigity of the modern world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hivObwMFIZQ