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The Housemaid
Why this pick
Like La Cérémonie, this is a tightly controlled domestic thriller where class hierarchy, resentment, and private humiliation curdle inside a household.
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MOVIE1995 1h 51m FRA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sandrine Bonnaire
Sophie
Isabelle Huppert
Jeanne
Jacqueline Bisset
Catherine Lelievre
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Georges Lelievre
Virginie Ledoyen
Melinda
Valentin Merlet
Gilles
Julien Rochefort
Jeremie