- 2006
- First Run Features
- 1 h 51 m
SummaryIt'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 day she ...
Directed By:Claude Chabrol
Written By:Ruth Rendell, Pierre Leccia, Claude Chabrol
The Bridesmaid
Metascore
Generally Favorable
74
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
74
95% Positive
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88
A classic of realistic terror, in which passion and murder can't lie buried.
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.
80
Deceptively understated and finally ferocious.
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.
70
This 2004 French feature seems concerned not so much with the psychopathology of everyday life as with psychopaths who lurk behind the everyday.
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.
50
A merrily macabre things-we-do-for-love yarn.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
83% Positive
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17% Negative
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Nov 4, 2011
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This was by far the worst comedy I have seen. So incredibly painful to watch. The movie was way to hyped up and I was really disappointed. The scenes that are supposed to be funny need more editing as they just drag on. I spent half my time fast forwarding through it. Really pointless. We all know that it will end with a happy ending. So incredibly predicable. Who are this critics anyway that give it such a high score???
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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
Awards
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
