La Ceremonie

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.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

as Jeanne

Sandrine Bonnaire

as Sophie Bonhomme

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Georges Lelièvre

Jacqueline Bisset

as Catherine Lelièvre

Virginie Ledoyen

as Melinda

Valentin Merlet

as Gilles

Julien Rochefort

as Jeremie

Dominique Frot

as Madame Lantier

Jean-François Perrier

as Priest

Ludovic Brillant

Reviews

badelf

This movie is the French version of "Thelma & Louise". Okay, it's different from that classic, but oh so much fun to watch. Reverse-spoiler alert: the ending is very different....

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