La Cérémonie

...violence. Chabrol presents an ambiguous view of culture and class conflict in this film, which he jokingly called "the last Marxist film." La Ceremonie received an 90% rating from Top Critics at Rotten Tomatoes (9 fresh and 1 rotten reviews)...

In this article: Claude Chabrol, Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jacqueline Bisset, Rotten Tomatoes, and Jean-Pierre Cassel

...your imagination from the teen prostitute who kills her father in Claude Chabrol's Violette Noziere, the crazed postal worker Jeanne in La Ceremonie (Chabrol again), or the mother-dominated sadomasochist Erika in Michael Haneke's The Piano...

In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Claude Chabrol, Heaven's Gate, White Ribbon, Week End, United Artists, and David O. Russell

...to pet them." Yakin thought Bisset would be perfect for the role of Mother after seeing her in Claude Chabrol's 1995 mystery thriller "La ceremonie." "When Jacqueline was younger, she was beautiful but a bit cold and removed," he says. "As...

In this article: Jacqueline Bisset, Death in Love, RSS Feeds, Psychologically, Dog, World War II, Bullitt, and Claude Chabrol

...who also happened to be beautiful, most notably in Rich and Famous with Candice Bergen in 1981; as a doomed housewife in Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie in 1995; and playing a former madam named James on the fourth season of Nip/Tuck. I'm fairly...

In this article: Jacqueline Bisset, Death in Love, Steve McQueen, James, Bullitt, Casino Royale, Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, and Candice Bergen

...titles; and Psycho,Dinner at Eight,All About Eve and The Godfather among the classics. If you want to go foreign, the French thriller La Ceremonie and the Roberto Benigni comedy The Monster are safe bets, too. Speaking of Italian movies, if...

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..."To Be or Not to Be" (1942), "All About Eve" and "The Godfather" among the classics. If you want to go foreign, the French thriller "La Ceremonie" and the Roberto Benigni comedy "The Monster" are safe bets, too. Speaking of Italian...

In this article: Mick LaSalle, Jennifer Aniston, Blades of Glory, John Cassavetes, Presidio, San Francisco, Oscars, History Channel, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and V for Vendetta

...indulge his ego in the warm bath of youth than rise to the challenge posed by a woman his equal. Unlike a Chabrol masterpiece such as "La Ceremonie," which carved a place for itself in small-town France, "A Girl Cut in Two" is starkly...

In this article: Claude Chabrol, A Girl Cut in Two, Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Benoit Magimel

...may be something of a giveaway. After all, she has played women with dark secrets for him in "The Story of Women," "Madame Bovary" and "La Ceremonie." Nonetheless, she casts a magnificently disquieting pall over "Merci Pour le Chocolat," a...

In this article: Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol

...the best performance of her career. It is also Tomei's finest hour in recent memory. As with Claude Chabrol's "La Ceremonie," in which a seemingly languid beginning leads to starkly dramatic events, "In the Bedroom" quietly rocks the...

In this article: Tom Wilkinson, Marisa Tomei, Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom, and Stoicism

...admirers of French cinema, with her best actress win at the Venice Film Festival in 1995 for Chabrol's Ruth Rendell adaptation La Ceremonie cementing her international reputation. And to cap it all, two years ago the now 48-year-old...

In this article: Claire, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnes Varda, and Paris