La Cérémonie

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE Ceremonie	1-week checkout	Due 04-23-2024

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Based on the book "A judgement in stone" by Ruth Rendell.
Special features: New digital transfer; "The making-of 'La cérémonie'": a 20-minute documentary featuing Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, and Sandrine Bonnaire; director filmography; original theatrical trailer; essay by film historian and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago reader.
Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen, Valentin Merlet.
Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.
Contents: Judgement in stone.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

garbage. submitted by Tassos on March 8, 2022, 4:17pm waste of time.

A Great Double Bill might be this and... submitted by jibkidder on June 25, 2022, 7:58pm ... Dennis Hopper's "Out of the Blue". Probably pretty hard to enjoy this without some existing anti-bourgeois sentiment on the part of the viewer, otherwise, hard to argue with both Huppert and Bonnaire in the same short film. Chabrol's work is always fairly matter of fact, and, in a way, dry. Something like the Simenon of the French New Wave.