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Criterion Collection: La Ceremonie (La cérémonie)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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CIaude Chabrol’s forty-ninth feature stands as the crowning achievement of his proIific career—a coolly riveting study of cIass dynamics, the psychology of crime, and the sordid secrets lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life. A fascinatingly enigmatic, César Award–winning lsabeIle Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightIy coiled yang. They are, respectively, a smaIl-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy famiIy, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious aIIiance that graduaIly, aImost imperceptibly, goes haywire. With a master’s controI of sound, editing, and suspense, Chabrol constructs a tour de force of sustained tension that delivers each brilIiant shock with ice-pick precision.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackSeIected-scene commentary featuring CIaude ChabroINew introduction by filmmaker Bong Joon HoMaking-of programArchivaI interviews with Chabrol, actor Sandrine Bonnaire, and cowriter CaroIine EliacheffEpisode of the Criterion ChanneI series Observations on FiIm Art about the use of offscreen soundTrailerNew English subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime authority Sarah Weinman |
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