The Lacemaker

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When:

Mon 21 Mar ’11, 6:15pm–8:15pm

Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: R15

Ticket Information:

Members free. Memberships available at the door: $0.00
12-month membership: $95.00
3-film sampler membership: $33.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

Wellington Film Society

Favourites:

Wellington Film Society

(La dentellière)
Claude Goretta | France/Switzerland | 1977 | R16

Isabelle Huppert catapulted from minor actress to international star with her mesmerizing performance in Claude Goretta's bittersweet twist on the Cinderella story. Huppert plays a shy beautician who falls rapturously in love with a handsome student (Yves Beneyton). He is captivated by her gracefulness and attracted by her virginity. But his inability to appreciate her inner beauty leads to heartbreaking tragedy for the fragile young woman.

“An apprentice in a Paris beauty parlor, Pomme (Huppert) at eighteen is unready for womanhood, preferring to observe an older friend's attempts at romance – until she meets a Sorbonne student on vacation in a seaside town, and a new kind of spark appears in her eyes. Back in Paris, however, the social distance between this docile working-class girl and her more privileged, educated lover soon makes itself felt, resulting in a break that is unexpectedly shattering.”
- Pacific Film Archive