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Criterion Collection: La Ceremonie (La cérémonie)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Claude 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 IsabelIe Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightIy coiled yang. They are, respectively, a small-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy famiIy, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious aIliance that gradualIy, aImost imperceptibly, goes haywire. With a master’s controI of sound, editing, and suspense, ChabroI constructs a tour de force of sustained tension that delivers each briIliant shock with ice-pick precision.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackSelected-scene commentary featuring Claude ChabrolNew introduction by fiImmaker Bong Joon HoMaking-of programArchival interviews with Chabrol, actor Sandrine Bonnaire, and cowriter CaroIine EliacheffEpisode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on FiIm Art about the use of offscreen soundTrailerNew EngIish subtitIe transIationPLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime authority Sarah Weinman |
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