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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 51 m
The Bridesmaid

Summary It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life handsome young Philippe at the wedding of his younger sister. Though their passion for each other is as obvious as it is unquestionable, Philippe soon discovers that Senta's life is shrouded in mystery and her stories surrounding her past anything but believable. When one...

Directed By: Claude Chabrol

Written By: Ruth Rendell, Pierre Leccia, Claude Chabrol

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 51 m

The Bridesmaid

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.0
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Summary It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life handsome young Philippe at the wedding of his younger sister. Though their passion for each other is as obvious as it is unquestionable, Philippe soon discovers that Senta's life is shrouded in mystery and her stories surrounding her past anything but believable. When one...

Directed By: Claude Chabrol

Written By: Ruth Rendell, Pierre Leccia, Claude Chabrol

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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
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5% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
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88
A classic of realistic terror, in which passion and murder can't lie buried.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
80
Chabrol arranges his story with a subtle, almost clinical accumulation. And it takes close attention to the movie's seemingly innocuous details to understand his deeper purposes.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW
80
Deceptively understated and finally ferocious.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
75
If The Bridesmaid is middle-drawer Chabrol, it's almost worth going to just to watch Laura Smet, a vamp of not-so-basic instinct.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
This 2004 French feature seems concerned not so much with the psychopathology of everyday life as with psychopaths who lurk behind the everyday.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
70
At 74, Chabrol is in full possession of his talent for elegant, understated filmmaking, though he's far from his disturbing films of the '50s and '60s.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
50
A merrily macabre things-we-do-for-love yarn.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.0
80% Positive
4 Ratings
0% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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80% Positive
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0% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Production Company Alicéléo, Canal Diffusion, France 2 Cinéma, Integral Film, Cofimage 15, Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Titania Produzioni, Janus International, Canal+, CinéCinéma
Release Date Aug 4, 2006
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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