Sun 11 - Wed 21 Sept
La Cérémonie
112 mins
in French with English subtitles
France/Germany | 1995 | col | dir. Claude Chabrol, with Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jacqueline Bisset | 4K Restoration
An illiterate maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) hired by a well-meaning bourgeois family, forms a dangerous relationship with a bitter postal clerk (Isabelle Huppert). The older woman instils her protegée with a hatred of the bourgeoisie, and together they slowly and unpleasantly, begin to vent their frustration. Beautifully shaped and paced, Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful thriller is a bleak observation on class power play which won Isabelle Huppert the Best Actress César Award.
The screening on 21 Sept will be preceded by a pre-recorded introduction by Nick Rees-Roberts & Darren Waldron (co-editors of the anthology Isabelle Huppert: Stardom, Performance, Authorship, Bloomsbury Press, 2022)
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