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Article: MOVIE REVIEW: Chabrol carves gem of 'normal' monsters: "La Ceremonie." Not rated. At the Kendall Square Cinema. Three and a half stars.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- January 3, 1997
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The banality of evil is the subject of "La Ceremonie," a chilling cautionary tale in which darkness lurks in every nook and cranny of so-called civilized society.
The society here is a French bourgeois family, a social unit director Claude Chabrol has often explored, if not exploded, in the past. The Lelievres are a prosperous, fashionable, seemingly close-knit clan living in a country chateau in the north of Brittany. Catherine (Jacqueline Bisset speaking fluent French) is an accomplished trophy wife and former model. Her husband is the dignified, well-respected Georges (Jean-Pierre Cassel). Georges' grown-up daughter (Virginie Ledoyen of "A Single Girl") and ...