The Big Ceremonial

Name: The Big Ceremonial
Director: Pierre-Alain Jolivet
Released: 1969
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Ginette Leclerc, Michel Tureau, Marcella Saint-Amant, Fernando Arrabal, Jean-Daniel Ehrmann

1969 · 105 MIN · IMDB 5.4 · 29 VOTES · DIR. Pierre-Alain Jolivet

Overview

Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls to satisfy his sick fantasy. But as in all fairy stories, there comes a day when a real, warm girl enters the sheltered life of the son. His natural and innate thirsts for oddities soon make him repeat on the girl what, until then, he has been doing with the dolls. The story then evolves into a fight of wills between the mother and the girl.

Dialogue Timeline — 334 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:27 Paris.

00:05:44 Do you remember how we used to be happy?

00:09:33 Excuse-me, Mr.

00:13:36 Take me with you.

00:16:30 -Tell the rest? -I've forgotten.

00:18:54 London. Two tickets.

00:24:02 You're just a whore who kiss every guy she meets.

00:26:19 Love...Daddy...

00:28:09 I won't touch you. I won't even kiss you from the end of my lips.

00:30:39 Who allowed you to say that?

00:31:49 We're very good dancers.

00:35:32 I'm coming for my son, Mr Superintendant. He is ugly, he is hunchbacked

00:36:44 If you don't believe me, call the checkroom.

00:42:58 You're beautiful

00:48:51 Where are the corset, the stockings, the rose?

00:54:42 Little doll darling, how you're frightening me!

00:56:59 You're waiting for my death to be free.

00:59:29 The little cat runs after his tail

01:01:50 -Get out this way. -Don't do it.

01:09:41 An old man walking and enjoying the sun.

01:18:51 My darling? You're insulted?

01:21:11 -You want her? You can have her. She will be in the black room.

01:23:44 If he was not dead, I would say it's Landru the culprit!

01:26:18 Speak, speak up!

Cast & Characters

Ginette Leclerc La mère Michel Tureau Cavanosa Marcella Saint-Amant Syl Fernando Arrabal Le vendeur de lingerie Jean-Daniel Ehrmann L'amant de Syl Roger Lumont L'homme du train Marie-France Le Signe Chantal Torres

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed334

Dialogue density3.2 lines / min

First line00:02:27

Final line01:26:18

Production Record

DirectorPierre-Alain Jolivet

LanguageFrench

IMDb votes29