A judgment in Stone 冷酷祭典 (La Cérémonie) - 分場ex.

Homework from 陳嘉上, he said: While you're trying to remember the scene (分場) of a movie that u really dig, it'll transform to some sort of potential materials in your memory.

A judgment in Stone 冷酷祭典 (La Cérémonie) 1995 France/Germany
Director/Screenwriter: Claude Chabrol Genre: Crime Drama
Watch the film on 6 May 2006, BC Cinema


Character Maid: Sophie [Sandrine Bonnaire]
Post-officer: Jeanne [Isabelle Huppert]
Family - Mum Catherine, Dad, Daughter Melinda, Young Son


1/ Time: Afternoon Place: Cafe People: Sophie, Catherine

△ Maid Job Interview. Reference & agreement.

2/ Time: Evening Place: Family House (Home) People: Catherine family

△ During a mussel dinner. Catherine tell the family about the new maid.

3/ Time: 9am Place: Train Station People: Catherine, Sophie, Jeanne

△ Catherine wait for Sophie. Drive her home. Post-officer Jeanne ask for a lift.

4/ Time: Morning Place: Home People: Catherine, Sophie

△ Home. her room, Catherine show her around the house, then leave.

5/ Time: Evening Place: Home Dinning Rm People: family, Sophie

△ Sophie make the Salad dinner, she eat after the family & clean up.

6/ Time: Morning Place: Town City People: Dad, Sophie

△ Dad drive Sophie to town, to let her make a short-sight glasses. She walk around town. Buy herself a sunglasses instead. Sophie meet Jeanne again in the supermarket, who recommend her nice chocolate, start friendship.

7/ Time: Morning Place: House Front-door People: Dad, Sophie

△ Family away for a trip, bye to Sophie and tell her to order food.

8/ Time: Afternoon Place: Home corridor People: Sophie

△ Cleaning & tidy up the house, delivery boy ring the bell.

9/ Time: Afternoon Place: Home People: Sophie, Jeanne

△ Jeannie come in by the window, give Sophie a postcard send from family, walk around the house.

10/ Time: Morning Place: Home Kitchen People: Sophie, Melinda

△ Family back & leave a notice, Sophie worry & scare, as she can't read, even by the help of a dyslexia book, still fail to read it. Luckily, Melinda pick up from floor & read it out, problem solved.

11/ Time: Sunset Place: Road People: Jeanne, Melinda

△ Jeanne's car got problem on the road, fix & help by Melinda.

12/ Time: Sunset Place: Home Kitchen People: Jeanne, Melinda

△ Melinda at home, want to play the hunting game in forest with dad, dad prepare with hunter gun in kitchen, Sophie's washing dishes & watching.

13/ Time: Afternoon Place: Home > Town People: Sophie, Jeanne

△ Notice (shopping list) on table again, fear. Go to Jeanne, help her to order food.
Promise to pick her up on Sunday, to do volunteer in church.

14/ Time: Sunset Place: Road People: Sophie, Catherine

△ Sophie walking back home with shopping food, Catherine saw her on the way. tell her about Sunday Melinda's birthday party, but she tell Catherine that she need to go church.

15/ Time: Morning Place: Home corridor People: Sophie, Family, guest

△ Kitchen heard about Jeanne had killed her baby in the past. Boyfriend of Melinda come over with present [cassette hi-fi recorder], more & more guest for Melinda's birthday party. Sophie ready some food & drinks. Run away to meet Jeanne, tell Jeanne it's her birthday as well, go church helping second-hand clothes.

16/ Time: Evening Place: Jeanne's flat People: Sophie, Jeanne

△ Potato dinner together, talk about killing people, discover each other's murder history,
sharing experience & laugh on bed.

17/ Time: Afternoon Place: Post-Office People: Dad, Jeanne

△ Dad go to post-office to complain package had been open by some people.

18/ Time: Evening Place: Sitting Room People: Catherine, son, Sophie, Jeanne

△ Catherine watch movie on TV with son, realise Jeanne uptairs with Sophie.

19/ Time: Afternoon Place: kitchen > Sophie Rm People: Sophie, dad

△ Dad call from office, tell Sophie to find a document on his desk, she scare & run upstairs pretend watching TV [loud], ignore the ring bell.

20/ Time: Morning Place: Dad's room People: Sophie, dad

△ Dad at home very angry about yesterday sophie didn't help him , make it clear Jeanne is not allow to visit her in the house.

21/ Time: Afternoon Place: Church People: Sophie, Jeanne & Godfather

△ Sophie & Jeanne go to a few houses to pick up old clothes, they offend the neighbor, Godfather suggest to stop their work.

22/ Time: Afternoon Place: Home People: Sophie, Melinda

△ Drive back, found Melinda's car, Sophie secretly listen to Melinda's conversation with boyfd, know she's pregnant. Melinda realise she can't read, suggest to teach her, but Sophie shock her by blackmail - will tell Melinda's dad if she say so.

△ Family back & see Melinda's crying, dad go upstairs & fired Sohpie for the maid job.

23/ Time: Sunset Place: in the Car People: Sophie, Jeanne

△ Sophie go to tell Jeanne, decide to live together, hungry with no food at home. help move out now.

24/ Time: Evening Place: Home People: Sophie, Jeanne, Family

△ Mozart concert on TV, family time in sitting room, audio tape recording. Dad take TV in Sophie's room to create stereo sound. [Loud classical musc] Sophie & Jeanne come in from the kitchen, taking biscuits & chocolate drinks upstairs, mess around in Catherine's room, break the photo frame, chocolate drinks on bed, ruin the dress, teasing clothes. Down to kitchen again, playing guns, crazy & fun, Sophie know where is the bullets, try on load with 2 guns.

△ Dad is annoyed by their noise, during the concert break, go to kitchen & see. Jeanne shoot him with gun right at the door. Dad died.

△ Catherine & son & daughter still watching the concert on TV, start worry about the noise, Sophie & Jeanne come in, shoot all of them die. Jeanne stop the tape recording, take away the player & leave. Sophie do the clean up, leaving the house.

25/ Time: Midnight Place: Car crash place, outside the house
People: Sophie, Police, Godfather, Ambulance people...

△ At the same time, Jeanne got a car crash & die, by Godfather's car, ambulance come.
Police come as well, they found the cassette player & roll the tape, it's the recording of the Mozart concert,
(end titles come with the replay audio of the last few minutes before the family die) we hear the sound of gun shoot, screaming of family, more gun shoot... story end.