THE BRIDESMAID
aka LA DEMOISELLE D'HONNEUR

Year: 2004
USA: First Run Features
UK: Cinefile
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clement, Bernard Le Coq, Solene Bouton, Anna Mihalcea, Michel Duchaussoy, Suzanne Flou, Eric Seigne, Pierre-François Dumeniaud, Philippe Duclos, Thomas Chabrol, Isold Barth, Mazen Kirwan
Director: Claude Chabrol
Countries: France / Germany
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 110 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains moderate sex
USA Release Date: 4 August 2006 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 13 May 2005 (Limited Release - London and Edinburgh)

Synopsis

Handsome 25 year-old Philippe Tadieu (Benoît Magimel), still living at home with his mother and two sisters, has a promising career ahead of him with a building contractor.

At the wedding of his sister Sophie (Solene Bouton) he meets her stunning but strangely aloof bridesmaid, Senta (Laura Smet), and it is love at first sight. But Senta's life and past is shrouded in mystery, and she tells him stories about herself that seem unbelievable. Her passion envelops and consumes Philippe.

Then she declares that as proof of their love to each other, each of them should kill a total stranger. But is this just another of Senta's wild stories? And how far is Philippe willing to go, even as his love for her seems to know no limits?