Cover image for La cérémonie
Title:
La cérémonie
Series Number:
1199.
Summary:
Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the housemaid to a wealthy family, forms a mysterious alliance with Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), a small-town postal worker. Their violent pasts resurface when they feel unacknowledged. The film is considered the crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career and is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime.
Audience:
Not rated.
General Note:
Based on the novel A judgement in stone by Ruth Rendell.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.

Accompanying booklet contains an essay by Sarah Weinman.

Bonus features: New 4K digital restoration -- Selected-scene commentary featuring director Claude Chabrol -- New introduction by filmmaker Bong Joon Ho -- Making-of program -- Archival interviews with Chabrol, actors Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire, and cowriter Caroline Eliacheff -- Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of offscreen sound -- Trailer -- New English subtitle translation -- An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2023

1995
ISBN:
9798886070835
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2023]
Call Number:
DVD CEREMONIE
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