La cérémonie
Claude Chabrol’s forty-ninth feature stands as the crowning achievement of his prolific career—a coolly riveting study of class dynamics, the psychology of crime, and the sordid secrets lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life. A fascinatingly enigmatic, César Award–winning Isabelle Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightly coiled yang. They are, respectively, a small-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy family, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually, almost imperceptibly, goes haywire. With a master’s control of sound, editing, and suspense, Chabrol constructs a tour de force of sustained tension that delivers each brilliant shock with ice-pick precision.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- 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
- PLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman
New cover by Eric Skillman
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- 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
- PLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Sophie
- Isabelle Huppert
- Jeanne
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Catherine Lelièvre
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Georges Lelièvre
- Virginie Ledoyen
- Melinda Lelièvre
- Valentin Merlet
- Gilles Lelièvre
- Julien Rochefort
- Jérémie
- Dominique Frot
- Madame Lantier
- Jean-François Perrier
- Priest
Credits
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
- Producer
- Marin Karmitz
- Adapted screenplay by
- Claude Chabrol
- Adapted screenplay by
- Caroline Eliacheff
- Based on the novel A Judgement in Stone by
- Ruth Rendell
- Music composer
- Matthieu Chabrol
- Cinematographer
- Bernard Zitzermann
- Camera operator
- Michel Thiriet
- Film editor
- Monique Fardoulis
- Sound recordist
- Jean-Bernard Thomasson
- Sound recordist
- Claude Villand
- Production designer
- Daniel Mercier
- Costume designer
- Corinne Jorry
- Script supervisor
- Aurore Chabrol
- Assistant director
- Cécile Maistre
- Production manager
- Yvon Crenn
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A scene from La cérémonie
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