La Cérémonie

By Vita 2022-12-30 07:00:36

"Grim Ritual" - Illiterate

The Ritual of Cold is a 1995 film by French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. Claude Chabrol is known as the Hitchcock of France. He is good at expressing some things he has always loved, such as the two sides of bourgeois life, in the way of crime films. face of life. The dialectical relationship between good and evil, and the tragic sense of death. This film is adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel, and the name of the novel is A JUDGMENT IN STONE "The Housekeeper's Mind". In this...

By Cale 2022-12-29 20:37:22

Cruel execution

Most people who have watched the cold festival are talking about how the contradictions intensified, how the film was suppressed at the beginning, and the director turned us into accomplices. In class antagonism, we always favor the weak, and the world sympathizes with the weak, just like the boxing champions of the past. Like the rape case, everyone played the sympathy card to the little girl who was tricked into bed by the boxing champion without paying attention to the truth. Chabrol...

By Moshe 2022-12-25 05:08:40

unresolved opposition

Chabrol has always been interested in the class divide. From "Pretty Sergey", "Cousin" to this "Grim Ritual". The difference is that in "Cousin", the gun is aimed at a cousin who has nothing, and this film is aimed at a middle-class family. The film uses a lot of life details to show Sophie's psychological changes and accumulation of hatred as an illiterate maid.

Sophie was favored by her wife through an interview and a letter of recommendation from the previous owner. The wife and...

By Haylee 2022-12-25 00:13:44

Massacre Witnessed by Mozart's Opera

Jeanne died in a car accident. After Sophie calmly cleaned up the scene, she walked out of the manor and saw the lights of the ambulance and the police car flashing to deal with the accident scene. Sophie just stood there indifferently, then walked away as if nothing had happened. In my opinion, this is a very ironic scene: the police car is actually here to provide shelter for Sophie, the most aloof murderer. When Jeanne dies, no one will ever know about Sophie's crimes.

The film has...

By Albertha 2022-12-24 20:54:26

Endless Flower

1. Chaos and order

It is said that the beginning of Ozu's film means the end. From this angle, the beginning of Chabrol's film becomes interesting: the middle-class hostess Le Lieve is sitting in a cafe and watching Sophie's slow approach. , the latter's movements were cramped, slow, and silently examined. The subjective shot of this scene lasted for a few minutes, as if it were an ominous sign. They quickly agreed on a date for Sophie to start...

By Vincenza 2023-09-07 19:41:05

When I first heard the title, I thought it was going to be a classic movie, but it turned out to be pure modern, with an invisible creepy evil spirit floating around. The veritable "coldness": not the rejection of human nature, but the stripping of morality, which in turn manifests as indifference to life, and even doubts about existence. Even if the abusive soundtrack repeatedly sets off the paradoxical atmosphere, what happens at the end will leave the audience dumbfounded. ——Not the heinous...

By Bianka 2023-09-05 00:32:34

It said a very desperate but had to admit the fact that different classes can never really understand and communicate, so in the end there is only naked hostility. This is a completely unsolved proposition. The best thing about the script is that it's realistic to see that the masters have done a good job, yet everything will inevitably happen. If you are more sympathetic to the master, it just proves what the director wants to express, you have been in your own class for too long and can't...

By Eldora 2023-08-26 03:59:21

The plot is terrifyingly simple, I want to say everything, but nothing is said, leaving the audience panic and dazed. An illiterate and sensitive maid, in order to hide her illiterate defect, and a villain in the town killed her employer's entire family. 90% of the foreshadowing is only for the last few shots. It is precisely because it does not know what it says, so it has attracted countless onlookers of "interpretation control", and they are very happy. Since it's all a family, it's good to...

By Zack 2023-08-21 10:51:06

Much better than Parasite. A story of almost "villains", neither innocent nor resistance. If you sympathize with one party and hate the other, you fall into a trap. On the one hand, there are "upper-class" maids who view the maids as inferior, or make comments in front of their faces, or speak vicious words or sympathy behind their backs. Catalyst, no one is really suffering from unwarranted disasters, and all three parties have human life lawsuits in their hands. What is interesting is that...

By Harley 2023-07-02 06:51:13

@CINEFAN 9/10 Chabrol Retro Screening at TK | If you're rich, this may be a horror movie, but if you're poor, this may be a good movie, but it's real Horror is back. But I'm very skeptical about the possibility of poor people watching this...