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Die Spitzenklöpplerin
La dentellière
Claude Goretta
As much as anything, it's probably the intriguing ambivalence of a narrative in which connections are never overtly made that turned this into an unexpected box-office hit. Where A GIRL FROM LORRAINE treads a clearcut feminist path, LA DENTELLIERE lurks in more shady byways. Its heroine (beautifully played by Huppert as a passive object) seems less a candidate for women's lib than a helpless prisoner of the incommunicability Goretta had in mind when he defined the film as being about the problem between two people 'who are unable to love each other because they do not express themselves in the same way'. The refreshing quality of the film, as one listens to the expressive eloquence of its silences, is that it cannot be reduced to ideological terms. The heroine may be a victim of both social convention and a suave though sympathetic seducer, but with a mysterious inner radiance glowing behind her patient suffering, she is also much, much more.
Time Out
Claude Goretta
Born in 1929 in Geneva. Law degree from the University of Geneva. Studied at the British Film Institute. 1957 Co-directs first short film “Nice Time” with Alain Tanner. Worked for French Swiss Broadcasting Service (TSR). Works as film director.
2006 SARTRE - L'AGE DES PASSIONS
2004 LA FUITE DE MONSIEUR MONDE
2001 THERESE ET LEON - LEON BLUM
1997 LE DERNIER ETE
1997 VIVRE AVEC TOI
1996 LE DERNIER CHANT
1995 MAIGRET A PEUR
1992 OMBRE
1991 LA FOUINE
1991 MAIGRET ET LA GRANDE PERCHE
1988 SI LE SOLEIL NE REVENAIT PAS
1986 LE RAPPORT DU GENDARME
1983 LA MORT DE MARIO RICCI
1980 LA PROVINCIALE
1977 LA DENTELLIERE
1975 PAS SI MECHANT QUE ÇA
1974 LE FILS PRODIGUE
1973 L'INVITATION
1966 JEAN-LUC PERSECUTE
1957 NICE TIME
2011 BON VENT, CLAUDE GORETTA (Lionel Baier)
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La Dentellière (The Lacemaker)
CH 1977 102'
Director: Claude Goretta
Script: Claude Goretta, Pascal Lainé
With: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer, Renate Schroeter, Michel de Ré, Monique Chaumette, Jean Obé
