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Director
  
Music director
  
Matthieu Chabrol

Country
  
FranceItalyGermany

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Thriller, Drama, Romance

Duration
  

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Release date
  
7 September 2004 (Venice Film Festival)28 July 2006 (USA)

Based on
  
The Bridesmaid byRuth Rendell

Writer
  
Claude Chabrol, Pierre Leccia, Ruth Rendell (novel)

Screenplay
  
Claude Chabrol, Pierre Leccia

Cast
  
Benoît Magimel
(Philippe Tardieu),
Laura Smet
(Senta), (le clochard),
Aurore Clément
(Christine), (Gérard),
Solène Bouton
(Sophie)

Similar movies
  
Benoit Magimel movies, Directed by Claude Chabrol, Thrillers

The Bridesmaid is a 2004 film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Demoiselle d'honneur. The film is based on the novel The Bridesmaid by Ruth Rendell.

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Plot

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Philippe (Magimel) lives on the outskirts of Nantes with his mother Christine (Clément) who is a hairdresser and with his two younger sisters. One day, a local girl mysteriously disappears. Soon after, Philippe's mother introduces her children to Gerard (Le Coq) -- a wealthy local businessman who appears interested in pursuing her. She gives him a sculpture of the Roman goddess Flora that Philippe had given her which was in the family garden.

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Not too long after receiving the gift, Gerard appears to vanish without a trace. Philippe makes it his mission to recover the sculpture. He finally tracks it down and places it in his closet without telling anyone. Later, at his sister's wedding, Philippe meets attractive bridesmaid Senta (Smet) and the two quickly fall for each other passionately. She claims to be a model and aspiring actress who lives in a huge villa which she says she inherited from her father. The sexy Senta may be beautiful and irresistible, yet she also seems to have several macabre ideas about life, love, and death. As their affair intensifies, she asks him to kill a stranger to prove his love. He at first thinks she is joking but then realizes she is actually serious about carrying out the plan. While Philippe jokingly presented a news article about a dead tramp as his proof, Senta actually carried out the deed. Before the police closes in on them, we discovered that Senta has a really troubled mind and this was not her first murder case.

Critical reception

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The film was well received by critics. Website metacritic.com assigned a 74 out of 100 based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

Desson Thomas of The Washington Post:

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe:

References

The Bridesmaid (film) Wikipedia
The Bridesmaid (film) IMDb The Bridesmaid (film) themoviedb.org


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