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The Bridesmaid
+ intro by season curator Catherine Wheatley
La demoiselle d’honneur
This heady Ruth Rendell adaptation sees a shy young man fall into an all-consuming affair with a compulsive fantasist who will shortly ask him to prove his love in the most extreme terms imaginable.
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Director
Claude Chabrol
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With
Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément
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France-Germany 2004. 110min
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35mm
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English subtitles
A shy, somewhat passive young man falls into an all-consuming affair with a woman he meets at his sister’s wedding. Unfortunately, she’s a compulsive fantasist who will shortly ask him to prove his love in the most extreme ways. A Ruth Rendell adaptation, this is a heady tale of amour fatale, carried along by the charismatic performances of Magimel and Smet.
Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury and domestic violence or abuse.
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