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La Ceremonie

1995, Movie, NR, 111 mins

La Ceremonie: Review

LA CEREMONIE | JUDGEMENT IN STONE, A
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An icy thriller of inexorability. Once upon a time, before his reputation fell prey to increasing indifference to foreign films and his own erratic output, former Cahiers du Cinema critic Claude Chabrol was widely considered Alfred Hitchcock's heir apparent, in that oh-so-very-French way, of course. This adaptation of English mystery writer Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone, transplanted to the French countryside, is exactly the sort of highbrow pulp that made him famous. Capable, slightly distant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) comes to work as a maid for the bourgeois Lelievre family: patriarch Georges (Jean-Pierre Cassel), stunning second wife Jacqueline (Jacqueline Bisset) and pampered, vivacious daughter Melinda (Virginie Ledoyen). She strikes up a friendship with a local postal clerk, Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), a spiteful, mercurial woman filled with free-floating resentment -- particularly of the upper classes -- and isolated by the widely held belief that she murdered her own child. Apart, Sophie and Jeanne are slightly pathetic misfits. Together, they're potentially lethal, and though it's no great surprise when they lash out violently, it's truly shocking. leave a comment
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