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The Ceremony (2014)

The Ceremony poster
Original title
La cérémonie
Directed by
Paul Vecchiali
Genre
drama, comedy
Country
France
Runtime
21 min
Rating
2.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short French film shows a man and then a woman refusing appointments to perform a mysterious evening ritual. The same role and text are played first by a male and then by a female actor, giving the words a different meaning.

mysteriousrepetitiveexperimentalslow-pacedcrypticatmosphericritualistic

What happens

La Cérémonie est un court métrage français de 22 minutes de Paul Vecchiali réalisé en 2014 Fiche unifrance.org. Un homme (hypothèse 1), puis une femme (hypothèse 2) refusent des rendez-vous pour s'adonner à un rituel mystérieux qui se déroule le soir senscritique.com. Le même rôle et le même texte sont donc départis successivement à un comédien et à une comédienne, et les mots prennent alors une signification différente. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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