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La Cérémonie

1995 · 112 min

A quietly mounting, icily controlled thriller that studies class resentment and intimacy until violence erupts with shocking inevitability.

Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Tagline: France's Alfred Hitchcock Returns...
Overview: Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

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Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel

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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
isolation
betrayal
power
crime
Places: countryside
single country house
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Horror	4
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	8
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, thriller
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Written by: Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Valentin Merlet, Julien Rochefort, Dominique Frot
Music: Matthieu Chabrol
Cinematography: Bernard Zitzermann
Runtime: 112 min
Country: France, Germany
Languages: French

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