The Lacemaker
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Director Claude Goretta Screenplay Pascal Laine Country France | 8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Duration Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 25 May 1977 (1977-05-25) Based on La Dentelliere
by Pascal Laine Writer Claude Goretta, Pascal Laine (novel), Pascal Laine (screenplay) Story by Claude Goretta, Pascal Laine Cast Isabelle Huppert (Pomme), Yves Beneyton (François), Florence Giorgetti (Marylène), Renate Schroeter (Marianne), Christian Baltauss (Gérard), Monique Chaumette (Mme Béligné)Similar movies Isabelle Huppert movies, Movies about love | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lacemaker (French: La Dentellière) is a 1977 French drama film directed by Claude Goretta and starring Isabelle Huppert and Yves Beneyton. It is based on the 1974 Prix Goncourt winning novel La Dentellière by Pascal Lainé.
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Plot
In Paris, the shy and virginal Béatrice lives with her mother and works in a hairdressing salon, where her only friend is the lively Marylène. Left by her lover, Marylène suggests that the two girls take a holiday by the sea at Cabourg. There Marylène soon goes off with a new man, leaving Béatrice on her own.
Befriended by the shy student François, the two become lovers and Béatrice moves into his room in Paris. Though he introduces her to his well-off parents and his intellectual friends, she is unable to mix in their worlds. Her deep reserve begins to annoy him and they split up. Losing interest in life, she ends up in a mental hospital.
Full of remorse, François visits her but she wants nothing: she has found a quiet place that suits her inwardness. In her silent anonymity, she is like the unknown girls in paintings such as the Lacemaker.
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Soundtrack
The original soundtrack music composed by Pierre Jansen for La Dentellière was released on CD by Canadian label Disques Cinemusique.
References
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