La Ceremonie
NR
7.5
1997
1 hr 51 min
Drama
, Thriller
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.
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- Cast：
- Isabelle Huppert , Sandrine Bonnaire , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Jacqueline Bisset , Virginie Ledoyen , Valentin Merlet , Julien Rochefort
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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
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Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
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