La Cérémonie

About La Cérémonie

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.

La Cérémonie is a 1995 thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. Released in August 1995, it runs 112 minutes.

Its themes are france, femme fatale, maid, and bourgeoisie.

Sandrine Bonnaire stars as Sophie Bonhomme, Isabelle Huppert as Jeanne, Jean-Pierre Cassel as Georges Lelièvre, and Jacqueline Bisset as Catherine Lelièvre. The screenplay is by Caroline Eliacheff and Claude Chabrol. It streams on Criterion Channel in the United States.

Becoming Jane, Pierrot le Fou, and Hiroshima Mon Amour make useful companions to La Cérémonie, all filed under country life and family. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 417 votes and it carries a NR rating.