A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
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| Isabelle Huppert | ... | Jeanne la postière | |
| Sandrine Bonnaire | ... | Sophie la bonne | |
| Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... | Georges Lelievre | |
| Jacqueline Bisset | ... | Catherine Lelievre | |
| Virginie Ledoyen | ... | Melinda | |
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Valentin Merlet | ... | Gilles |
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Julien Rochefort | ... | Jeremie |
| Dominique Frot | ... | Madame Lantier | |
| Jean-François Perrier | ... | Priest | |
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Ludovic Brillant | ||
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Claire Chiron | ||
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Claire-Marie Dentraygues | ||
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Jean-Pierre Descheix | ||
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Penny Fairclough | ||
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Alain Françoise | ||
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The upper-class owner of a gallery, Catherine Lelievre, hires the efficient and quiet maid Sophie to work in the family manor in the French countryside. Her husband Georges Lelievre, who is an opera lover, her daughter Melinda and her teenage son Gilles welcome Sophie and appreciate her work. Sophie soon befriends the postmistress Jeanne, who is a bad egg and encourages Sophie to rebel against her employers, but the maid stays submissive. However, Sophie is ashamed of a secret and feels uncomfortable in many situations, finding a way to hide her secret. When Georges tells Sophie that he does not want Jeanne in his house, Sophie stands up to him. Melinda discovers her secret and Sophie blackmails her, but Melinda tells her parents what happened. Georges fires Sophie and she returns to the house later with Jeanne on the rampage. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Language:
FrenchRelease Date:
20 December 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$873,196Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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The film Jacqueline Bisset and Valentin Merlet are watching is Red Wedding (1973), also directed by Claude Chabrol. See more »Quotes
Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.See more »
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