Dominique Frot, Isabelle Huppert, Jacqueline Bisset
The Lelievres are well-heeled, fashionable, and cultured -- a typical bourgeois family, steeped in the usual problems of upper-middle class life. After many failed attempts to find a suitable housekee...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 27, 2004
Stats: 113 reviews
Note: French cinema at its worst, with a pace of a slime, stiff direction, flat characters and the notion of great importance above it all. So basically the woman is illiterate and hides it, damn, allright, but does she has to blow everyone away with a shotgun because they find o...( read more)
After only my first Claude Chabrol film I can see why he is sometimes known as the French Alfred Hitchcock. La Cérémonie is based on the Ruth Rendell book "A Judgement in Stone", I'm not going to reveal too much about the plot because this is one of those films which really does ...( read more)
O filme não tem nada de muito especial, mas eu gostei da atuação da Isabelle Huppert (e fiquei meio assustada com as duas personagens psychos, claro).
Profoundly creepy and haunting. This film will stay with you long after seeing it.
A young woman named Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is interviewed for a housekeeping position at the country estate of Catherine Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset) and her family. Sophie is enigmatically succinct in her answers, but her references are highly complimentary, and she is immed...( read more)
Una storia tutta al femminile, all'inizio parte delicatamente molto sottotono e termina con un esplosione di violenza, vandalismo e maleducazione che mal si addicono alle sembianze delle due donne, all'apparenza sensibili e tranquille. Le due protagoniste, un pò Thelma e Louise, ...( read more)
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