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    A Judgment in Stone

    1996 · Drama · 1h 49m

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  1. La Cérémonie (English: lit. The Ceremony ) is a 1995 French-German psychological thriller film by Claude Chabrol , adapted from the 1977 novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell . The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin , two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wife and daughter in 1933, as well as the 1947 play ...

  2. Dec 20, 1996 · La Cérémonie: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset. A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.

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    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • Claude Chabrol
    • 1996-12-20
  3. Apr 17, 2012 · The French have a name for the events leading up to a death by guillotine. They call it "the ceremony." Although Claude Chabrol's "La Ceremonie" (1995) contains no guillotines, there is a relentless feeling to it, as if the characters are engaged in a performance that can have only one outcome. It comes as a surprise to all of them, and to us.

  4. 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 ...

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  5. La Cérémonie est un film de thriller psychologique franco - allemand de Claude Chabrol, sorti en 1995, adaptation du roman L'Analphabète de Ruth Rendell, lui-même librement inspiré de la célèbre affaire Papin qui vit deux sœurs domestiques assassiner leurs patronnes en 1933, ainsi que de la pièce de Jean Genet, Les Bonnes .

    • Claude Chabrol
    • Caroline EliacheffClaude Chabrol
  6. Feb 7, 1997 · La Ceremonie. French gangsters had a word for the events leading up to death by guillotine. They called it la ceremonie. Claude Chabrol 's icy, ruthless new film is also about ceremony -- about the patterns of life that divide a rich French family and their strange new housekeeper. Unlike most ceremonies, it ends with an unexpected outcome.

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  8. Claude Chabrol has described La Cérémonie as his most left-wing film, and certainly its political subtext is not too difficult to discern. The film is a wry but incisive commentary on the inability of the bourgeois elite to engage with the concerns of the wider population. They exist in a kind of bubble - self-sufficient, self-absorbed ...

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