La Cérémonie (1995)

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France's Alfred Hitchcock Returns...

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.

• Released: 1995-08-30
• Genres: Drama, Thriller
• Runtime: 1h 52m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 7.3/10 from 416 votes

Directed by Claude Chabrol.

Top cast

• Sandrine Bonnaire as Sophie Bonhomme
• Isabelle Huppert as Jeanne
• Jean-Pierre Cassel as Georges Lelièvre
• Jacqueline Bisset as Catherine Lelièvre
• Virginie Ledoyen as Melinda
• Valentin Merlet as Gilles
• Julien Rochefort as Jeremie
• Dominique Frot as Madame Lantier
• Jean-François Perrier as Priest
• Ludovic Brillant

Full cast & crew

Where to watch La Cérémonie

• United States: stream on Criterion Channel
• Canada: stream on Criterion Channel

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