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La Cérémonie

La Cérémonie

1995 · 112 min · FR · NR · 7.3 (420 votes)
Dir. Claude Chabrol · Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Valentin Merlet · Music Matthieu Chabrol

“France's Alfred Hitchcock Returns...”

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Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

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A suffocatingly realistic portrayal of class resentment simmering beneath a placid surface. It feels like watching a storm gather over a quiet countryside, with an inevitable, chilling downpour on the horizon.

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