"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she was illiterate" — this is how the British writer Ruth Rendell began her novel "Stone Sentence". One of the most prominent representatives of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol developed the motives of Rendell's 1977 detective story. In 1995, Chabrol made his masterpiece, “The Ceremony,” a psychological thriller based on the novel by a follower of Agatha Christie, an author who had won the Edgar Allan Poe Award several times. It was this film that movie lovers watched at the next screening of the Cinema Club of the National Library of Armenia. The film immediately became the subject of heated discussions. 

“What was that, what is this man doing, what kind of madness is this?” — the rhetorical question froze on the lips of the moviegoer. The viewers, shocked by the film review, emphasized that they were convinced that Claude Chabrol created the scariest films from a psychological point of view. “Chabrol turns the most ordinary situations into horror, creating a terrible finale,” — the moviegoer noted admiringly. It is no coincidence that the film starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire has received numerous prestigious awards: the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, the Cesar Awards, etc.

For the third year in a row, the National Library of Armenia, in cooperation with the Filmadaran Film Culture Development NGO, the National Library, and the French Embassy in Armenia/French Institute, has been hosting a film club that presents a selection of French films. The films are shown in French with Armenian and English subtitles. The next screening of the film club is on September 24 at 19:00. Admission is free.