La Cérémonie
France's Alfred Hitchcock Returns...
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A tense class-conflict thriller built on the dangerous intimacy between two women whose friendship becomes a weapon against bourgeois hypocrisy, culminating in transgressive violence.
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.
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