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Overview
Release Date:
17 November 2004 (Belgium) morePlot:
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Dull Film moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Benoît Magimel | ... | Philippe Tardieu | |
| Laura Smet | ... | Stéphanie "Senta" Bellange | |
| Aurore Clément | ... | Christine | |
| Bernard Le Coq | ... | Gérard Courtois | |
| Solène Bouton | ... | Sophie Tardieu | |
| Anna Mihalcea | ... | Patricia Tardieu | |
| Michel Duchaussoy | ... | Le clochard | |
| Suzanne Flon | ... | Madame Crespin | |
| Eric Seigne | ... | Jacky | |
| Pierre-François Dumeniaud | ... | Nadeau | |
| Philippe Duclos | ... | Capitaine Dutreix | |
| Thomas Chabrol | ... | Lieutenant José Laval | |
| Isolde Barth | ... | Rita (as Isild Barth) | |
| Mazen Kiwan | ... | Pablo | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Chantal Banlier | ... | La caissière épicerie | |
| Jacqueline Cassard | ... | Madame Bertillon | |
| Brigitte Chamarande | ... | Madame Soupin | |
| Emmanuel Faure | |||
| Pascal Franks | |||
| Pierre Galliard | |||
| Florent Gibassier | ... | Le serveur de pizza | |
| Vincent Guillerminet | |||
| Joëlle Legua | |||
| Isabelle Leprince | ... | Madame Pélissier | |
| Isabelle Mamère | ... | Nathalie Dumont | |
| Jean-Pierre Niobe | (as Jean-Pierre Niobé) | ||
| Cécile Peroua | |||
| Taïeb | (as Taieb) | ||
| Michel Vivier | |||
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Also Known As:
Brautjungfer, Die (Germany)Damigella d'onore, La (Italy)
The Bridesmaid (International: English title)
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111 minLanguage:
FrenchColor:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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France:U | Portugal:M/16 | Sweden:11 | Brazil:16 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Argentina:13MOVIEmeter: 
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There are four members of the Chabrol family in the crew : Claude's two sons ( actor Thomas and composer Matthew ), his wife ( scipt supervisor Aurore ) and his stepdaughter ' first assistant Cécile Maistre ) moreFAQ
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I have not read Ruth Rendell's novel, so I cannot judge this film as an adaption of a fictional work. On the other hand, I think the film fails primarily because Rendell's story doesn't work well in a French setting. If I'm reading the film correctly, I think that Rendell wanted to get at class distinctions as a central topos of the novel, and this theme would play out superbly in an English setting, where class differences are part and parcel of the social fabric. In Chabrol's film, such distinctions are so understated as to be lackluster, if not plain dull, a thematic failure that is only made the worse by characters who are lifeless and lacking in the telling character traits and hard-scrabble wisdom one expects of certain class types. Everyone in Chabrol's film is bourgeois, bourgeois, bourgeois, and therefore just plain boring. The acting is not so great and I felt that the casting decisions were flawed. Finally, Senta is a ridiculously deranged young woman (wouldn't you, too, hear the stylus skipping across the LP if someone said they loved you and that you were the person for whom they had been waiting forever, after one afternoon of sex?), so it's difficult to imagine anyone taking her very seriously. Let's not forget the absurdity of Senta's mother and the mother's lover, played by untrained dancers (it's very obvious) who spend their waking hours practicing the tango in awkward and clumsy moves. Why didn't Chabrol do something else with them other than film the pair practicing steps they can never hope to master? I would not recommend this film.