{"id":1350,"date":"2006-08-30T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2021-11-12T23:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:31:21","slug":"lacemaker-the-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Lacemaker, The (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;She has little, but has a natural intelligence.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1-97x128.jpg 97w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1-205x270.jpg 205w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Poster-1.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA shy beauty salon assistant (Isabelle Huppert) falls in love with a suave literature student (Yves Beneyton), who becomes embarrassed by her lack of intellectualism.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cross-Class Romance<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Isabelle Huppert Films<\/li>\n<li>Mental Breakdown<\/li>\n<li>Romance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary points out, this &#8220;interesting&#8221;, heartbreaking tragedy &#8212; featuring a &#8220;moving performance&#8221; by Isabelle Huppert as an &#8220;extremely sweet, lovely, and passive 19-year-old beauty-salon assistant&#8221; with &#8220;the capacity to love too much&#8221; &#8212; may be &#8220;too sad&#8221; for some viewers to handle, yet it remains a powerful meditation on the difficulties inherent in cross-class romance. He notes that it was unusual at the time for a male director to show sympathy for the &#8220;ignorant&#8221; female in a couple rather than the &#8220;educated, political&#8221;, yet ultimately short-sighted male. Refreshingly, director Claude Goretta and screenwriter Pascal Laine aren&#8217;t &#8220;putting down Pomme for being shallow&#8221;; instead, &#8220;they are showing that intellectuals like Francois [Beneyton] can&#8217;t see the depth of Pomme&#8217;s beauty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isabelle Huppert in an early, star-making role<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-54766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lacemaker-Huppert.png 1805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s recommended. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0075932\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1977\/10\/06\/archives\/screen-lacemaker-studies-passivity.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/65271.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She has little, but has a natural intelligence.&#8221; Synopsis: A shy beauty salon assistant (Isabelle Huppert) falls in love with a suave literature student (Yves Beneyton), who becomes embarrassed by her lack of intellectualism. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cross-Class Romance French Films Isabelle Huppert Films Mental Breakdown Romance Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary points out, this &#8220;interesting&#8221;, heartbreaking tragedy &#8212; featuring a &#8220;moving performance&#8221; by Isabelle Huppert as an &#8220;extremely sweet, lovely, and passive 19-year-old beauty-salon assistant&#8221; with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1350\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78279,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/78279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}