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You have to start watching right at the beginning of La Cérémonie, Claude Chabrol’s latest addition to one of the oddest and most compelling bodies of cinematic work in the world. Why does the maid, Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), answer the questions of her would-be employer, Catherine Lelièvre (Jacqueline Bisset) in that odd way? Why is…
“Age is unnecessary,” as King Lear ruefully noticed, though there is more than one way of disposing of it
An imperfect attempt to merge Irish blarney with heroism but worth seeing for the funny dialogue
A disappointing and frankly implausible romance whose author doesn’t seem to have his heart in it
In real life, recovery from addiction is a great and inspiring thing; in the movies not so much