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La Ceremonie Reviews

1995

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Adapted from Ruth Rendell's chilling novel La Ceremonie is one of Claude Chabrol's most celebrated and unforgettable films. Wealthy family the Lelivres have taken on the extremely efficient but strangely detached Sophie as their live-in maid. Her free time is spent alone in her room until she meets local postal clerk Jeanne who .. Read more

Starring	Jacqueline Bisset, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire
Director	Claude Chabrol
Genres	Thriller

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- When Catherine (Bisset) takes on Sophie (Bonnaire) as housekeeper, her family's impressed by Sophie's aura of quiet... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 30 Jul 2010 at 04:55
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- - 15
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  This is why I love French films
  
  What a great film on such a simple premise! Wherease Hupert's character is simply ignorant and amoral, Bonnaire's is a huge deal darker and dangerous ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 29 May 2006 at 14:04
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- - 3
  - 0
  Youre in or you're out !
  
  La Ceremonie was made in 1995 at a time when French society was undergoing a crisis created by the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, the have and ... read more »
  
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- - Minopater
  - 233 reviews
  - Wallington
  - 16 Jan 2011 at 14:14
- - 2
  - 2
  "Very French"? Only in the worst way
  
  Chabrol deserves respect, but not for this film. It's about fear and hatred of anyone who isn't bourgeois. The leads did the best they could in roles ... read more »
  
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- - Bronterre
  - 11 reviews
  - Brighton
  - 20 May 2010 at 23:40
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  la ceremonie
  
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  A typical French 'epater les bourgeois' film with an equally typical superb performance by Isabelle Huppert as an effortlessly amoral postmistress in ... read more »
  
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  - manchester
  - 13 Mar 2010 at 20:51
- - 0
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  Grimly absorbing
  
  Not particularly to my taste as I found the central characters repellent. That includes the snobby family of employers. However, I needed to watch to the end... read more »
  
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  - Cumbria
  - 09 Feb 2010 at 23:49
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  - 1
  Don't bother
  
  Utterly, utterly boring so fell asleep!
  
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- - gardens
  - 24 reviews
  - Bath
  - 08 Oct 2009 at 13:30
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  Dated
  
  Another film made to shock which we are all used to now. Never an answer to why - we are informed of actions taken in the past, but not why these took place... read more »
  
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  - Manchester
  - 23 Sep 2009 at 14:34
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  Feck
  
  I didn't quite see it coming. An incredible build of suspense through the film and lovely acting.
  
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  - London
  - 18 Aug 2009 at 17:20
- - 0
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  strange brew
  
  i watched this film through a series of interuptions..you know phone calls, and having to go collect daughter....the characters were all a bit distant...and the... read more »
  
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- - 16sillyducks
  - 8 reviews
  - Stirling
  - 23 Jul 2009 at 22:43
- - 0
  - 0
  Slow burn to degeneracy
  
  Not Chabrol's best, maybe not Redell's best, but good stuff, watching two perverse women lead each other further and further into the mire.
  
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  - not living on a French farm
  - 12 Apr 2009 at 10:20
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  unusual
  
  Different style of film but not as much suspense as I like.
  
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  - Burton-on-Trent
  - 10 Jan 2009 at 16:16
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- - 15
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  This is why I love French films
  
  What a great film on such a simple premise! Wherease Hupert's character is simply ignorant and amoral, Bonnaire's is a huge deal darker and dangerous ... read more »
  
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- 249413
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  - London
  - 29 May 2006 at 14:04
- - 6
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  so-so thriller
  
  not the best film ever made,but it was well worth a watch with good performances from the two leads.
  
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- - david campbell
  - troon,scotland
  - 25 Jul 2006 at 19:06
- - 5
  - 0
  RUTH RENDELL HACKED TO DEATH
  
  From; SILVER HARP Edinburgh
  
  La Ceremonie (1995 Claud Chabrol Fr.)
  
  This film was shot amidst beautiful scenery; a fact you’ll ... read more »
  
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- - SILVERHARP
  - 79 reviews
  - Edinburgh, Scotland.
  - 20 Apr 2008 at 16:48
- - 4
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  Shocked...
  
  I should have seen the way the film was merandering along, but the last section still came as a surprise. An excellent film on the whole, the 2 leading ladies ... read more »
  
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  - Plymouth, England
  - 28 May 2006 at 23:48
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  Youre in or you're out !
  
  La Ceremonie was made in 1995 at a time when French society was undergoing a crisis created by the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, the have and ... read more »
  
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- - Minopater
  - 233 reviews
  - Wallington
  - 16 Jan 2011 at 14:14
- - 1
  - 1
  Certainly not dull, dull, dull!!
  
  Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire are both superb in this tense thriller from the master of 'French Suspense' Claude Chabrol. Certainly not dull ... read more »
  
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- - severnside62
  - 24 reviews
  - Shrewsbury
  - 27 Apr 2006 at 21:55
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  The plot was almost too easy to guess...
  
  ... but the twist at the end wasn't. A slow movie but quite captivating.
  
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  - Chantal
  - 1022 reviews
  - London
  - 07 Jul 2006 at 21:42
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  La Ceremonie - most intriguing film
  
  I mis-rated this with one star by mistake! - definitely five stars. The mix of dark thriller with unfolding personalities produced a real winner. Ruth Rendell ... read more »
  
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- - J A D THOMAS
  - Dorset, England
  - 13 Jul 2006 at 15:24
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  characters anyone?
  
  This film was one without emotion. The sinister soundtrack aside, it being the highlight of the piece, this film stirred nothing and provoked only misguided ... read more »
  
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- - Scott Lewis
  - Leicester, England
  - 19 Jul 2006 at 20:37
- - 0
  - 0
  Very french film!
  
  Thoroughly enjoyable. Quite slow to build up but very typically french - I enjoyed this film very much! Some unanswered questions about the characters but ... read more »
  
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  - newcastle upon tyne
  - 24 Aug 2006 at 18:10

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  Adapted from Ruth Rendell's chilling novel La Ceremonie is one of Claude Chabrol's most celebrated and unforgettable films. Wealthy family the Lelivres have taken on the extremely efficient but strangely detached Sophie as their live-in maid. Her free time is spent alone in her room until she meets ...