The author Ruth Rendell has said that Claude Chabrol's version of her novel "A Judgement in Stone" is one of the few film adaptations of her work that she is happy with.
The film Jacqueline Bisset and Valentin Merlet are watching is Les noces rouges (1973), also directed by Claude Chabrol.
One of the most significant titles in the career of Claude Chabrol, a towering figure in the French nouvelle vague and the country's thriller specialist par excellence, is this 1995 thriller adapted from the English-language Ruth Rendell mystery novel, A Judgment in Stone. That title was originally attached to the film's initial English-language screenings in various film markets to find a distributor, but the original French title of La Cérémonie (an expression that refers to a person's execution for a capital crime) has managed to stay with it instead in all English-speaking countries.
The second movie adaptation of Ruth Rendell's novel "A Judgement in Stone". The first, and less successful, adaptation was Horror sans conditions (1986), the only film directed by Ousama Rawi.