A late Chabrol but no less devastating for all that, "La Ceremonie"transforms Ruth Rendell's "A Judgement in Stone" into yet another typically Chabrolian attack on the less than discreet charms of the bourgeois as maid Sandrine Bonnaire, with the help and encouragement of her less than staple friend Isabelle Huppert, decides to turn the tables on the not-quite-nice family who hires her. From the moment Jacqueline Bisset offers Bonnaire the job you can see where this is heading but the outcome is surprisingly chilling nevertheless. As a director faithfully following in the footsteps of Mr Hitchcock, Chabrol certainly does not disappoint while his cast rise spectacularly to the occasion. Both Huppert and Bonnaire are superb while Bisset and Jean-Pierre Cassel as Bonnaire's far from sympathetic employers hadn't been this good in ages.
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