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“The old master, , offers a sleek new “Macabre and claustrophobic, the dark tale of l’amour film, based on a novel” fou is highly recommended” The Daily Telegraph The Times The Bridesmaid Benoît Magimel Laura Smet Aurore Clemént Bernard Lecoq Philippe Tardieu Senta The Mother The Lover La demoiselle d’honneur

SPECIAL The Bridesmaid La demoiselle d’honneur La demoiselled’honneur The Bridesmaid FEATURES Philippe Tardieu lives with his mother, Christine, and two sisters, Sophie and Patricia, • Making of Featurette in the suburbs of Nantes and works as a salesman. Christine does hairdressing at 11 mins home to earn some spare change. Sophie, the oldest sister, is getting married to A film by • Original French Trailer Jacky. As for Patricia, the youngest sister, she tries as best she can to escape she’s not Claude Chabrol • Main Cast & Crew sure what. Filmographies At the wedding Philippe falls in love with Senta, one of the bridesmaids. It’s love at • Current and Future first sight and, soon, Philippe spends all his nights with Senta, neglecting his mother Releases and his younger sister. Senta’s love is very exclusive and demanding. One day, she tells Philippe that, if he really loves her, he should kill a man, any man, for her.

5.1 & 2.0 Dolby Digital The next day, in order to please Senta and as a joke, Philippe says to her that he’s responsible for the murder of a down-and-out. Senta believes him and says that she Soundtrack will do the same for him. When the corpse of another man is found, a panicking Aspect Ratio: 16 x 9 Philippe starts to wonder… Anamorphic Length: 106 mins Again adapting a novel by Ruth Rendell (whose A Judgment in Stone became La Language French Cérémonie) Chabrol is at the peak of his craft. Senta is played by Laura Smet, Subtitles: English who was so impressive in Xavier Giannoli’s Eager Bodies and she is also, incidentally, Region Code: 2 the daughter of and . Philippe is played by Benoît Disc Format: PAL DVD-9 Magimel (The Piano Teacher,The Flower of Evil) and arguably one of the finest actors of his generation.

a film by CLAUDE CHABROL screenplay & dialogue PIERRE LECCIA and CLAUDE CHABROL from the novel by RUTH RENDELL MICHEL DUCHAUSSOY, SUZANNE FLON, SOLÉNE BOUTON, ANNA MIHALCEA, ERIC SEIGNE, PHILIPPE DUCLOS, THOMAS CHABROL, PIERRE-FRANCOIS DUMENIAUD director of photography EDUARDO SERRA camera operator MICHEL THIRIET film editor MONIQUE FARDOULIS sound PIERRE LENOIR, THIERRY LEBON original score MATTHIEU CHABROL production adviser FRANÇOISE BENOÎT-FRESCO costume designer MIC CHEMINAL script supervisor AURORE CHABROL 1st assistant director CÉCIL MAISTRE production manager MICHEL JULIEN line producer FRANÇOISE GALFRE producers PATRICK GODEAU, ANTONIO PASSALIA, ALFRED HURMER produced by PATRICK GODEAU A FRENCH-GERMAN CO-PRODUCTION ALICELEO – CANAL DIFFUSION – FRANCE 2 CINEMA – INTEGRAL FILM IN ASSOCIATION WITH COFIMAGE 15 WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE RÉGION DES PAYS DE LOIRE AND OF THE MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION (CNC) WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF FILMFERNSEHFOND BAYERN, FILMFÖRDERUNGSANSTALT,TITANIA PRODUZIONI AND JANUS INTERNATIONAL AND WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF CANAL+ AND CINECINEMA ORIGINAL TITLE LA DEMOISELLE D’HONNEUR DISTRIBUTED IN THE UK BY CINEFILE LTD WWW.CINEFILE.CO.UK ...until death us do part! CineFile release © CineFile 2006 All Rights Reserved Packaging design copyright © 2006 Original Year of Release France 2004 PAL Claude Chabrol meets Ruth Rendell CFWF004

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