(aka "The Bridesmaid" or "Brautjungfer, Die" or "Damigella d'onore, La")
France / Germany / Italy 2004
Once again veteran French director Claude Chabrol peers beneath the facade of bourgeois respectability to unearth the skeletons piled up in the closet. Skilfully adapted from a Ruth Rendell novel and set in a provincial French town, The Bridesmaid is a slyly enjoyable thriller with echoes of Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train.
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Theatrical Release: Italy7 September 2004 (Venice Film Festival)
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DVD Review: CineFile - Region 0 - PAL
Big thanks to Per-Olof Strandberg for the Review!
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| Runtime | 1:45:52 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1:1.66 Original Aspect Ratio
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| Audio | French (Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0) | |
| Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: CineFile Aspect Ratio:
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seems that Eduardo Serra's camera work in this film isn't the easiest
thing to reproduce as Digital Video. I haven't seen this in a cinema, so
there's nothing to compare with. In my eyes the entire film has a greenish
tingle, that don't seem right. Many scenes are shot in low light, and even
tough they seems to be pushed up a bit, the black color is blocked far to
often. Another disturbing thing is that the entire film looks a little bit
to soft. The 5.1 sound is flawless. The sound mix uses mostly the front channels. When the rhythm (events) in the film starts to go faster, also the sound information groves. A nice modest sound work! Even with it's flaws, the quality on this DVD is on the better side of the titles available on DVD by Claude Chabrol. |
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Agnes Varda by Alison Smith | Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard |
Claude Chabrol (French Film Directors)
by Guy Austin |
Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No.
2) by James Quandt |
The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau |
French New Wave
by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno |
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