La Cérémonie (1995)
Directed by Claude Chabrol
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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What critics compared La Cérémonie to
Never clunky but ultimately designed to be a crowd pleaser, there are shades of Claude Chabrol’s La Ceremonie (1995), a famed adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgment in Stone , also a parable from the perspective of the demeaned help of a wealthy family’s chilly home.
Although Sacred Deer shares some DNA with the Pinteresque invasion flicks of New French Extremism, notably Sitcom and La Ceremonie, most of its weaselly charms are derived from its perverse adherence to the rules set by its Hollywood antecedents.