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La Ceremonie [VHS] [1996]
 
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La Ceremonie [VHS] [1996]

VHS ~ Isabelle Huppert
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A nanny and a postmistress forge a friendship on past secrets. The nanny is subsequently fired from her job for strange behaviour. In retaliation the two friends exact their own kind of revenge. Based on the bestseller by Ruth Rendell. French dialogue with subtitles.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection, 3 Feb 2003
This is the film that got me into French cinema. I first saw it one late night on Channel 4 and was facinated by Bonnaire's ability to hold the screen with the minimum of facial expression and beautifully judged physicality. Having watched it many times since, Isabelle Huppert's post mistress becomes funnier and funnier in what is another example of her position at the very top of French acting. A superbly paced film, it has even persuaded me to try out Ruth Rendell's original novel - an author I had previously dismissed.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Chabrol/Huppert, 13 Jun 2001
By Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Marrickville, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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Based on Ruth Rendell's novel A Judgment in Stone, Claude Chabrol's 1995 film is fascinating and disturbing. Illiterate Sandrine Bonnaire joins the French countryhouse of Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Cassell as a maid and along the way befriends postal clerk Isabelle Huppert. Chabrol's previous concerns have been about the bourgeoisie exploiting the working classes but Bisset and her family are nothing but kind to Bonnaire so their fate seems cruel and unwarranted. Bonnaire's Sophie is meant to be dim because she eats chocolates and watches TV indiscriminately. We're left to ponder Huppert's character, who is clearly unbalanced and who leads Bonnaire astray. Huppert is Chabrol's favourite actress and he rewards her with big closeups. Her Jeanne is funny, wears plaits and chews gum and is dangerously irrational. She has a great monologue in profile about the death of her daughter which she delivers in one take while she drives, knifing away sentiment yet still conveying the sadness in her Garbo-like mask face. It's interesting to see the still beautiful Bisset play a mother of teenage children and to hear her speak in French. You can sense her pleasure in this role and Chabrol let's us see her great legs. Chabrol is too subtle a director to manipulate us with the conventions of the thriller. His soundtrack is bare and the climactic violence leaves us shocked yet not unsurprised. I like the use of colour in the film - Bisset's yellow teacups, Huppert's salmon car, Bonnaire's blue jumper with daisies - and the way the final irony repeats the shock of the murder we have already witnessed.
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