@deanduncan63Saw Claude Chabrol’s #LaCérémonie. So fierce, such fury in the scenario, the situation, & in the conduct of these restive protagonists …
… so suave, so cool to the point of consummate in the way the director renders all of this ferment. You’ve heard this: …
… Chabrol is France’s answer to Hitchcock. This film made me start to wonder if it’s not time to turn that one completely around.
#LaCérémonie. It’s maybe not the 1st priority, but it’s so present, in so many of the films. Chabrol is the great chronicler of bourgeois privilege …
… which he understands & enjoys, from the inside. So posh! So easy & elegant, so attractive, & utterly desirable! …
… Here, though, Chabrol is also very interested in & attuned to the resentment—the whirlwind, more like— …
… that privilege can create in un-privilege. Whirlwind? Apocalypse, more like! What an ending, in its own way as emphatic …
… as undeniable, as terrible as the conclusion of Vertigo.
#LaCérémonie. Which is it? Which should I say? Bonnaire! Huppert!