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IMDB |
| Budget |
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Filmming
Location |
Some Time 1995
Saint Coulomb,
St-Malo,
Ile-et-Vilaine,
France
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Date
Released
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1995.08.30
France
1995.09.04
Venice Film Festival |
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1,000,
271 in France
$670,659
in USA |
| DVD
& Video |
0000.00.00
in France |
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La
Cérémonie (1995)
DIRECTOR: Claude Chabrol
CAST: Sandrine Bonnaire; Jean-Pierre Cassel; Jacqueline Bisset; Virginie Ledoyen
SYNOPSIS
Sophie,
a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy
under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the
energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up
against her bourgeois employers. Things start to escalate as the Lelievres find
out that Sophie can't read and has brought Jeanne into their house against their
wish. - summary written by Robert
Zithammel from IMDB.
NOTE
One of the most successful collaboration between
Chabrol and Isabelle , both in question and artistic Achievements. - FORUM
QUOTE
Isabelle
Huppert
"My Life as Actress"
by Thierry Klifa
Studio Mag, N°181,
September, 2002
Second time after Une
Affaire de Femmes that Chabrol launch one paves in the pond! Meanwhile, we
had made Madame Bovary, that I like much. La Ceremonie is also the first shutter
of a trilogy where one of the principle
characters is not what one think of. Music is the profound beat and secret of
the three films. First, La Ceremonie with Don Juan; Second, Rien ne va plus with
Tosca; Third, Merci pour le chocolat
with the Music of Liszt. They are films of the great music-lover - this is Claude.
If Coup de Foudre is the story
of a friendship between two women; La Ceremonie, is one of a friendship more nauseous;
I liked, today, to do a film between two women who detest each other, also nasty
among 8 reunited by Ozon. I would see myself well in What's up to Baby Jane.
This is magnificent.
AWARD
Official Selection of Venice International Film
Festival, August-September, 1995, Italy. Best Actress for both Isabelle and Sandrine
TRIVIA
It's
the second time that Isabelle won her Venice Best Actress Award. Last time was
in 1988 for "Une Affaire de Femmes", another film directed by Claude
Chabrol. The film also won Isabelle first, and the only one (by 2003), a Cesar's
Best Actress Award. Receiving her Cesar, she acknowledged Chabrol for giving her
"ever beautiful career". Chabrol didn't attend the ceremony as usual.
He was watching the TV telecasting at home.
REVIEW
Huppert
Acts on Inventive Instinct, The Boston
Globe, Jan. 3, 1997
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