La Cérémonie
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La Cérémonie | |
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Directed by | Claude Chabrol |
Produced by | Marin Karmitz |
Starring | Isabelle Huppert Sandrine Bonnaire Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Cassel Virginie Ledoyen Valentin Merlet |
Music by | Matthieu Chabrol |
Cinematography | Bernard Zitzermann |
Editing by | Louisette Hautecoeur |
Release date(s) | August 30, 1995 |
Running time | 112 min. |
Country | France / Germany |
Language | French |
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La Cérémonie is a 1995 film by Claude Chabrol. It was adapted from the novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell.
[edit] Plot
La Cérémonie tells the story of an illiterate domestic servant, Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) who has been hired by wealthy housewife Catherine (Jacqueline Bisset). Sophie becomes friends with an erratic post office employee, Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), and things begin to spiral towards violence. Chabrol presents an ambiguous view of culture and class conflict in this film, which he jokingly called "the last Marxist film."[1]