La Cérémonie

by Claude Chabrol1h531995France
La Cérémonie

Recommended byCristian Mungiu, Atom Egoyan

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A winter morning at the Saint-Malo station. Mrs Lelièvre (Jacqueline Bisset) has come to pick up Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the pearl who has been hired to care of the family house. Sophie gives great satisfaction, nothing is too hard for her. Is it her lack of emotion that makes her seem strange ? Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), the bright, inquisitive, village postmistress, uses Sophie as an excuse to enter the house. The two young women’s carefully hidden secrets bring them together. Friendship, then partnership. What secrets, for what partnership ?

Cast and crew

  • Credits

    • Production Compagny : MK2 Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Prokino Filmproduktion Gmbh, Olga-Film GmbH
    • Distributor : MK2
    • Costume Design : Corinne Jorry
    • Dialogs : Claude Chabrol
    • Director : Claude Chabrol
    • Scenario : Claude Chabrol
    • Sound Recorder : Claude Villand, Jean-Bernard Thomasson
    • Producer : Marin Karmitz
    • Original Work Author : Ruth Rendell
    • Photo Director : Bernard Zitzermann
    • Set Decoration : Daniel Mercier
    • Editing : Monique Fardoulis
    • Original Music : Matthieu Chabrol

  • Technical details

    • Printed format : 35 mm
    • Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
    • Year of production : 1995
    • French release date : 30 août 1995
    • Category : Feature film
    • Color : Colors
    • Language : French

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