The lace maker (film)

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Movie
German title The lace maker
Original title La dentellière
Country of production France , Germany , Switzerland
original language French
Publishing year 1977
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Claude Goretta
script Claude Goretta ,
Pascal Lainé
production Yves Gasser (overall management), Lise Fayolle , Klaus Hellwig
music Pierre Jansen
camera Jean Boffety
cut Joële Van Effenterre
occupation

The lace maker (original title: La dentellière ) is a French-German-Swiss film drama by the Swiss director Claude Goretta and the actress Isabelle Huppert from 1977. It is based on the novel Die Spitzenklöpplerin by Pascal Lainé , which won the Prix ​​Goncourt in 1974.

action

The inconspicuous and shy Beatrice ( Isabelle Huppert ) is 18 years old, has never had a boyfriend and works as a trainee in a Parisian hairdressing salon. She lives with her mother ( Annemarie Düringer ), a saleswoman in a small grocery store. The father had left the family a long time ago. Her only and older friend Marylène ( Florence Giorgetti ) is her colleague and in many ways the exact opposite of Beatrice: extroverted, hungry for life and has been in a relationship with a married man for three years, but who - in the presence of Beatrice - dumps her on the phone gives what she tries to rush out of the window, but Beatrice can stop her. The two then decide to go on vacation together in the then dreary seaside resort of Cabourg in Normandy . In a disco, Marylène meets an American and moves in with him in his apartment, leaving Beatrice alone. She is visibly bored, is approached a little later in front of an ice cream parlor by the inhibited Parisian philosophy student François ( Yves Beneyton ), but initially does not respond to his advances. François, who, in contrast to Beatrice, comes from a middle-class family, keeps looking for her for the next few days, finds her again and the two tentatively get closer. A little later he awkwardly persuades her to sleep with him, and she agrees. While visiting a military cemetery, they meet Marylène and her new boyfriend. The situation is quite stiff and you can feel that François doesn't like Marylène, the only friend of his lover.

After the holidays, she moves in with him in his Paris student apartment. Here they often visit friends and fellow students of François' who have intellectual conversations that Beatrice cannot follow: she is silent. François becomes increasingly dissatisfied with this situation, wants to help Beatrice to take courses, to "develop her personality" because he thinks she is intelligent. She agrees almost wordlessly, but tries to convey to him that she is not really dissatisfied with her situation, which he cannot accept. Although he introduces her to his family, he does not mention that she works as a hairdresser, “wash old women’s heads” (Beatrice: “I can do hairstyles later.”) He is ashamed of her. She obviously feels uncomfortable in this situation. Only François' father seems to like Beatrice as she is.

Back in Paris, François finally breaks the relationship: in his narrow-mindedness and class arrogance, he is unable to really understand and accept them. Beatrice is brought back to her mother, where she withdraws even more, no longer eats and slowly breaks down because of this failed love. She has hardly any contact with her friend either. François tells his friends that the breakup interview went well, that they did not fight back or defend themselves in any other way.

After Beatrice collapses on the street, she is admitted to a hospital and then to a psychiatric clinic. François learns of the situation from Beatrice's mother. He visits her - accompanied by a couple of friends - in the psychiatric clinic: She looks like a ghost, emaciated and pale. In response to his question, she told him that she was in a relationship again and that she had visited the white windmills with this man on Mykonos . After saying goodbye soon enough, he gets into his car and bursts into tears. Beatrice walks slowly into the lounge, on the walls of which hang two posters with the windmill motif from Mykonos. Her head turns slowly and she looks with a fixed expression into the camera, the viewer in the face.

The film ends with a quote: “He passed her without noticing her. Because she was one of those who do not make themselves noticeable, who want to be explored, where you have to look closely. In the past, a painter would have immortalized her in a genre painting, as a laundress, a water carrier or a lace maker. "

Production and publication

The film was produced by companies in Paris, Geneva, Frankfurt am Main and the ZDF in Mainz. The film was shot over 40 days from October 25 to December 17, 1976 in Paris and Cabourg in Normandy . The completion fell in February 1977, in May of the same year The lace maker was shown publicly for the first time during the Cannes Film Festival . The German premiere of the strip took place on April 28, 1978 in Berlin (Cinema Paris) and Munich (Eldorado).

Awards and rewards

  • César 1978 ( France )
    • Nominated: Best Actress - Leading Role (Isabelle Huppert)
    • Nominated: Best Actress - Supporting Role (Florence Giorgetti)
    • Nominated: Best Film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Times: The Lacemaker . In: NY Times . Retrieved August 24, 2008.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Koschnitzki: German Films 1977, hrgg. v. German Institute for Film Studies, Wiesbaden 1978. p. 56
  3. ^ Festival de Cannes: The Lacemaker . In: festival-cannes.com . Retrieved May 10, 2009.