La cérémonie (1995)
(A Judgement in Stone)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 112m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen
Synopsis:
The ordered lives of a cultured bourgeois family are disrupted when their dutiful maid befriends the hellraising local postmistress.
Review:
Chabrol's best film in years, and arguably his last great one, is an adaptation of a Ruth Rendell novel, previously filmed with Rita Tushingham. The director acknowledges the anglophilia of the project by casting Bisset, who speaks excellent French, recalling her appearance in Truffaut's La nuit américaine. It is one of those tales, like Strangers on a Train, in which the meeting of two unlikely soulmates produces destructive results, and the lead actresses deliver memorable portrayals, the atmosphere of the piece remaining with you a long time afterwards.
(A Judgement in Stone)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 112m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen
Synopsis:
The ordered lives of a cultured bourgeois family are disrupted when their dutiful maid befriends the hellraising local postmistress.
Review:
Chabrol's best film in years, and arguably his last great one, is an adaptation of a Ruth Rendell novel, previously filmed with Rita Tushingham. The director acknowledges the anglophilia of the project by casting Bisset, who speaks excellent French, recalling her appearance in Truffaut's La nuit américaine. It is one of those tales, like Strangers on a Train, in which the meeting of two unlikely soulmates produces destructive results, and the lead actresses deliver memorable portrayals, the atmosphere of the piece remaining with you a long time afterwards.
(A Judgement in Stone)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 112m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen
Synopsis:
The ordered lives of a cultured bourgeois family are disrupted when their dutiful maid befriends the hellraising local postmistress.
Review:
Chabrol's best film in years, and arguably his last great one, is an adaptation of a Ruth Rendell novel, previously filmed with Rita Tushingham. The director acknowledges the anglophilia of the project by casting Bisset, who speaks excellent French, recalling her appearance in Truffaut's La nuit américaine. It is one of those tales, like Strangers on a Train, in which the meeting of two unlikely soulmates produces destructive results, and the lead actresses deliver memorable portrayals, the atmosphere of the piece remaining with you a long time afterwards.