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Le Ceremonie
Part of the NACHTBLENDE special series
“Funnier Games” cola2k on Letterboxd
Claude Chabrol, a chronicler of bourgeois abysses, tells in BIESTER (German distribution title) not a story of good and evil, but rather of a quiet tension that slowly builds up to explode all the more violently in the end. Isabelle Huppert proves once again that her choice of roles has punch and that it is not only her presence that evokes associations with Michael Haneke's cinema.
A house in the country, with more than just a hint of bourgeoisie. Catherine Lelièvre (Jacqueline Bisset) hires a new housekeeper. Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is quiet, dutiful, and efficient. She does everything right, yet still doesn't belong. She keeps the fact that she can't read a secret. In the Lelièvres' world, where books are as much a part of the inventory as silver cutlery, illiteracy only exists beyond the horizon. When Sophie meets Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), a postal worker with a seemingly dark past, something begins to change. The two women, both scarred by trauma, form a symbiosis that has less to do with friendship than with silence, anger, and a subliminal pact...