La dentellière (1977)
(The Lacemaker)
Country: FR/SW/GER
Technical: col 107m
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti
Synopsis:
A quiet, shy girl meets a young man on holiday and visits him at his parents', ultimately moving in with him, but she seems unable to cope with the pressures of modern living and interpersonal relationships.
Review:
A film of slow, subtle strokes which takes its time to observe its enigmatic heroine, as it says at the end, as if she were an eighteenth century genre painting. The minutes of screen time, which must replace paragraphs of more directed description in the source novel, nevertheless require considerable efforts of divination on the part of the viewer, and were typical of a new Francophone cinema that prioritized texture over narrative.
(The Lacemaker)
Country: FR/SW/GER
Technical: col 107m
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti
Synopsis:
A quiet, shy girl meets a young man on holiday and visits him at his parents', ultimately moving in with him, but she seems unable to cope with the pressures of modern living and interpersonal relationships.
Review:
A film of slow, subtle strokes which takes its time to observe its enigmatic heroine, as it says at the end, as if she were an eighteenth century genre painting. The minutes of screen time, which must replace paragraphs of more directed description in the source novel, nevertheless require considerable efforts of divination on the part of the viewer, and were typical of a new Francophone cinema that prioritized texture over narrative.
(The Lacemaker)
Country: FR/SW/GER
Technical: col 107m
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti
Synopsis:
A quiet, shy girl meets a young man on holiday and visits him at his parents', ultimately moving in with him, but she seems unable to cope with the pressures of modern living and interpersonal relationships.
Review:
A film of slow, subtle strokes which takes its time to observe its enigmatic heroine, as it says at the end, as if she were an eighteenth century genre painting. The minutes of screen time, which must replace paragraphs of more directed description in the source novel, nevertheless require considerable efforts of divination on the part of the viewer, and were typical of a new Francophone cinema that prioritized texture over narrative.