Mademoiselle Chambon (2010)
84%RT Audience Score: 79%
Awards & Nominations: 3 wins & 3 nominations
Mademoiselle Chambon is a film that delicately explores the complexities of love and infidelity, all while maintaining a slow and measured pace that allows the audience to fully immerse themselves in the story. Director Stéphane Brizé’s confident direction and the assured performances of Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kilberlain make this film a touching and emotional experience that is reminiscent of the classic Brief Encounter. With its elegant storytelling and understated approach, Mademoiselle Chambon proves that sometimes less really is more.
Mademoiselle Chambon is like a French version of Brief Encounter, but with less glamour and more long silences. It’s a slow-paced film that takes its time to build up to a heartbreaking finale at the railway station. The performances are assured and the direction is confident, making it a touching and well-observed drama. Plus, the teacher is a trained violinist, so the music is pretty great too. Overall, it’s a pensive film that proves that less really is more.
Production Company(ies)
Pathé Consortium Cinéma Indusfilms Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Pertuis, Vaucluse, France
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
Year of Release
2010
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTS
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):French
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Country of origin:France
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Dec 7, 2010
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
Mademoiselle Chambon, Drama, French (Canada), Stéphane Brizé, Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto, Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika, Jean-Marc Thibault, Arthur Le Houérou, Florence Vignon, $530.4K, reviewed by Laura Kern, Derek Malcolm, Xan Brooks, Tim Robey, Nigel Andrews, David Jenkins, Jana Monji, Mattie Lucas, Graham Young, Philip French, Matthew Turner, Kevin Harley, Brief Encounter, violinist, teacher, infidelity, family, slow-paced, emotional, understated, powerful, note-perfect, storytelling
Worldwide gross: $5,511,371
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $7,492,083
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,050
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 817,021
US/Canada gross: $531,685
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $722,765
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,251
US/Canada opening weekend: $19,446
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $26,435
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,416
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): 3900000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $5,301,607
Production budget ranking: 1,869
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $2,854,916
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): -$664,440
ROI to date (est.): -8%
ROI ranking: 1,438
Sandrine Kiberlain – Véronique Chambon
Aure Atika – Anne-Marie
Jean-Marc Thibault – Le père de Jean
Arthur Le Houérou – Jérémy
Stéphane Brizé – Director
Director(s)
Stéphane Brizé
Writer(s)
Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon, Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon
Producer(s)
Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto
Film Festivals
Cannes
Awards & Nominations
3 wins & 3 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (54) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (9)
Mademoiselle Chambon may be a small film about inconsequential people, but the situations and emotions it stirs up are universally profound
November 13, 2013
Laura Kern
Film Comment Magazine
TOP CRITIC
An impossible romance that is expressed delicately and without recourse to more than mild erotica.
September 23, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
TOP CRITIC
Slow your pace and pause for breath and there’s a world of pleasure to be had from this unhurried small-town tragedy.
September 22, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Xan Brooks
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Too much of Stphane Briz’s film is elegant water-treading, but there are candid little scenes, and one of those will-they-won’t-they, Brief Encounter denouements that never go out of fashion.
September 22, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
TOP CRITIC
It hauls its bucket up slowly. We’re not sure till the end, or even then, if there is much water in it.
September 22, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
TOP CRITIC
A heartbreaking, ambiguous twist on ‘Brief Encounter’, railway station finale and all. Take hankies.
September 21, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
David Jenkins
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
This is a pensive French film about family and love and possible infidelity, doesn’t rush to passion or indulge in Hollywood glamour, but proceeds at a leisurely pace, filled with looks and long silences.
August 14, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
Jana Monji
Age of the Geek
Brizé’s direction is so confident and the performances so assured, it could almost have been a silent film.
August 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
Mattie Lucas
From the Front Row
By paring everything right down, director Stphane Briz elegantly proves that less really is more.
October 26, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Graham Young
Birmingham Post
It’s a touching, measured, well-observed film that uses music (the teacher is a trained violinist) skilfully.
September 25, 2011
Philip French
Observer (UK)
Understated, powerfully emotional drama that plays like an updated French version of Brief Encounter, thanks to a superb script and terrific performances from Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kilberlain.
September 24, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
A familiar tale lent richness by note-perfect turns and stealthy storytelling.
September 13, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Kevin Harley
Total Film…
Plot
A married man falls in love with his son’s teacher in Mademoiselle Chambon, a French drama that explores the complexities of family and infidelity.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The film stars Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain.
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