The film will be La Cérémonie, a drama ( une comédie dramatique) by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire.
Sophie, Sandrine Bonnaire, works as a maid ( une bonne) for a well do to, cultivated family ( une famille aisée et cultivée). They live in an isolated house ( une maison isolée) in Brittany ( en Bretagne). Sophie performs her tasks perfectly but is very quiet and withdrawn ( silencieuse et fermée) which baffles ( déconcerte) her employers ( ses employeurs). Sophie becomes friendly ( devient amie) with Jeanne, Isabelle Huppert, the postmistress ( la postière) in the village. Jeanne is full of life ( exubérante), quite the opposite of Sophie. They soon discover that they have some things in common from their past………

The film will be shown by Alliance Française de Bristol on Sunday, 22nd March, at 6.30pm at The Landsdown pub in Bristol, for more info…