La Cérémonie
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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 they inspired, The Maids by Jean Genet.[2]
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La Cérémonie | |
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Directed by | Claude Chabrol |
Written by | Claude Chabrol Caroline Eliacheff |
Produced by | Marin Karmitz |
Starring | Isabelle Huppert Sandrine Bonnaire Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Cassel Virginie Ledoyen Valentin Merlet Serge Rousseau |
Cinematography | Bernard Zitzermann |
Edited by | Louisette Hautecoeur |
Music by | Matthieu Chabrol |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | France / Germany |
Language | French |
Box office | $10,882,920[1] |
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The film received widespread critical acclaim with detached praise towards Chabrol's screenplay and directing, and Bonnaire and Huppert's performances.