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La cérémonie' (1995) - Pre-order available from
The Criterion Collection direct for Blu‑ray ($31.96) / DVD ($23.96)
Release date: November 21
"Claude Chabrol’s forty-ninth feature stands as the crowning achievement of his prolific career — a coolly riveting study of class dynamics, the psychology of crime, and the sordid secrets lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life. A fascinatingly enigmatic, César Award–winning Isabelle Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightly coiled yang. They are, respectively, a small-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy family, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually, almost imperceptibly, goes haywire. With a master’s control of sound, editing, and suspense, Chabrol constructs a tour de force of sustained tension that delivers each brilliant shock with ice-pick precision."
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Selected-scene commentary featuring Claude Chabrol
- New introduction by filmmaker Bong Joon Ho
- Making-of program
- Archival interviews with Chabrol, actor Sandrine Bonnaire, and cowriter Caroline Eliacheff
- Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of offscreen sound
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime authority Sarah Weinman