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Cinema |
| Budget |
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Filmming
Location |
End of 1976
Paris & Cabourg, France |
Date
Released
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1977.05.16
Cannes
Film Festival
1977.05.25
France |
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1,125,
216 in France |
| DVD
& Video |
1996.12.03
in US
2004.05.18 in France
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The
Lacemaker (1977)
aka: La Dentellière
DIRECTOR: Claude Goretta
CAST: Yves Beneyton; Florence Giorgetti;
SYNOPSIS
Pomme,
just passed 18-year-old, is an apprentice at a beauty salon in Paris. Discreet,
graceful and quite, Pomme doesn't disturb anyone. She meets a dashing university
student on summer holidays and falls rapturously love with him. The student is
captivated by her gracefulness and attracted by her virginity. But his inability
to appreciate her inner beauty leads to heartbreaking tragedy for the fragile
young woman.
NOTE
This is the film that brought the International
Stardom to Isabelle. Her mesmerizing performance is so unforgetable that every
time I see it, I feel only more sorrow. It takes Isabelle several years to get
rid of this registered image from her - the shy and quite Sweet Apple. - FORUM
QUOTE
Isabelle
Huppert
"Huppert
Girl" by Lawrence O'Toole
Film
Comment, Sept/Oct, 1980
Looking back at the movie, it's true that it's
a masculine vision. But it's not because it's a masculine vision that the movie
should not have been made. A masculine vision exists - why not show it? I was
not aware of it while I was doing it: I was too much into the charmer. I still
like the movie, I still think it's a good movie. It's ... it's finished. I had
a very narcissistic relationship to the part at the time. Also, it's an image
of myself that I don't have to have anymore - that any woman should have to have.
But I don't agree when women say it's a bad movie and that it shouldn't have been
made. It was just in its observation, totally just and fair - it was not a lie.
It was a man's vision for sure. In its sensibility it was perfectly just. There
was nothing wrong, except that it's not a very cheerful destiny for a woman.
Claude
Goretta
"
Madness
of Actress: Isabelle Huppert, Woman in Shade"
Le
Temps, November 30, 2002
I wondered during the shooting of La Dentelliere
if she would surmount her fragility, this form of awkwardness also made the beauty
of her presence," still said Claude Goretta. "She approached that point
magnificently. Because she had the intelligence to escape the character from Pomme,
of going towards other universes by often privilegiant unrecognised cinéastes.
The quality of Isabelle, is always to take the risk of the skid. And to understand
that if one does not offer dizziness to the witness, nothing great can occur."
Daniel
Toscan du Plantier
"
Bouleversifiant"
©Éditions
du Seuil, May 1992 ISBN 2-03-013690-2
At the time of a visit at work,
in Cabourg, the risk of this adventure appeared to me disproportionate. This small
Isabelle Huppert imposed me this film and I found myself in the minable and banal
situation as a producer too quickly allured. After weeks of silence and dumb resentment,
I decided without joyness to see the first cut, but at the first minutes I felt
a faintness quickly transformed into upheaval. I found myself in front of her
door, which she took a long time to open. She had the same face of the killed
child to her last iamge of the film : "You saw the film". Persaded that
my emotion wasn't dependent on our personal relationship, I asked a collaborator
to see it and tell me the truth. Seeing her upset after projection, I explained
to her: "Lastly, this isn't the story of a shampouineuse falling in love
with a bourgois during a holiday who abandnade her while returning to Paris -
Yes, but this is a shampouineuse who is caught for the princess of Clèves."
Isabelle and me made ten films together, after the Lacemaker.
AWARD
Official
Competition at 1977 Cannes Film Festival - until last minutes, the majority thought
Best Female Interpretation would go to Isabelle, an impressive breakthrough at
the film festival.
TRIVIA
Isabelle couldn't get rid of living in
her character for a month after the film had been finished.
REVIEW
La
Dentelliere (in French), Premiere, May, 1977
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