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The Lacemaker

Original title: La dentellière
  • 19771977
  • RR
  • 1h 47m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
2.7K
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38,902
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Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, and Claude Goretta in The Lacemaker (1977)
DramaRomance
A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
38,902
17,589
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    • Director
      • Claude Goretta
    • Writers
      • Claude Goretta
      • Pascal Lainé(novel "La dentellière")
    • Stars
      • Isabelle Huppert
      • Yves Beneyton
      • Florence Giorgetti
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Claude Goretta
    • Writers
      • Claude Goretta
      • Pascal Lainé(novel "La dentellière")
    • Stars
      • Isabelle Huppert
      • Yves Beneyton
      • Florence Giorgetti
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 17User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 4 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Isabelle Huppert and Yves Beneyton in The Lacemaker (1977)

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    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    • Pomme
    Yves Beneyton
    • François
    Florence Giorgetti
    • Marylène
    Annemarie Düringer
    Annemarie Düringer
    • Pomme's mother
    • (as Anne-Marie Düringer)
    Renate Schroeter
    Renate Schroeter
    • François' girlfriend
    • (as Renata Schroeter)
    Michel de Ré
    • The painter
    Monique Chaumette
    Monique Chaumette
    • La mère de François
    Jean Obé
    • Le père de François
    Christian Baltauss
    • Gérard
    Christian Peythieu
    Heribert Sasse
    Jeanne Allard
    Odile Poisson
    Odile Poisson
    • La caisière
    Gilberte Géniat
    Gilberte Géniat
      Sabine Azéma
      Sabine Azéma
      • Corinne
      • (as Sabine Azema)
      Valentine Albin
      Agnès Château
        Bertrand De Hautefort
        • Director
          • Claude Goretta
        • Writers
          • Claude Goretta
          • Pascal Lainé(novel "La dentellière") (screenplay)
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        Storyline

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        • Trivia
          Isabelle Hupperts first big movie.
        • Connections
          Featured in Der Beginn aller Schrecken ist Liebe (1984)

        User reviews17

        Review
        Top review
        8/10
        Essentially, this movie examines love from a class-based perspective
        The student from Paris and his friends are intellectuals. He reads Le Monde. He is stamped by his background. The girl is in love with love. Everywhere she turns, there is love and passion evident, even through the hotel's thin walls. She only wishes to please and outwardly doesn't project herself as a self-regulated person. Her lower class background is clear before she goes on vacation where she meets the student. Although they stay in the same hotel, this is about the only thing they have in common beside the bed they share, but being removed from their normal lives just delays the obvious. Love is idyllic at first for everyone. She is hopelessly adrift among his friends in Paris and cannot communicate with them. This class based depiction is consistent with how many French view that one's birth divides a person from the other classes.

        The class-based system exists here in the South, but I have a feeling that passion and love and familiarity more readily breaks down barriers than those 30 years ago in France.

        This is a movie well worth seeing.
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        • wmbarnes1
        • Dec 21, 2006

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        • Release date
          • October 8, 1977 (United States)
        • Countries of origin
          • Switzerland
          • France
          • West Germany
        • Official sites
          • French DVD distributor's site
          • Swiss Films page
        • Language
          • French
        • Also known as
          • Die Spitzenklöpplerin
        • Filming locations
          • Cabourg, Calvados, France
        • Production companies
          • Action Films
          • Citel Films
          • Filmproduktion Janus
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        Technical specs

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        • Runtime
          1 hour 47 minutes
        • Sound mix
          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.66 : 1

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