1995 · thriller · drama
La Cérémonie
Directed by Claude Chabrol1h 52m1995
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.
Our read: La Cérémonie (1995) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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