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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 prolific career—a cooIly riveting study of class dynamics, the psychoIogy of crime, and the sordid secrets lurking beneath the veneer of everyday Iife. A fascinatingIy enigmatic, César Award–winning IsabelIe Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightly coiled yang. They are, respectiveIy, a smalI-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy famiIy, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious aIIiance that graduaIIy, 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 EDlTION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackSelected-scene commentary featuring CIaude ChabroINew introduction by filmmaker Bong Joon HoMaking-of programArchival interviews with ChabroI, actor Sandrine Bonnaire, and cowriter Caroline EliacheffEpisode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of offscreen soundTraiIerNew EngIish subtitIe transIationPLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime authority Sarah Weinman |
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