Synopsis
"The Lacemaker" (La Dentellière, 1977) is a French-Swiss drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Claude Goretta and adapted from Pascal Lainé's novel, it follows Pomme — a quiet, self-effacing hairdresser's assistant who has spent her life learning to go unnoticed.
On holiday in Normandy she falls for François (Yves Beneyton), a literature student who is confident, bookish, and from an entirely different class. She gives the relationship everything she has. He accepts it as his due and eventually realizes they have nothing to say to each other. The film made Isabelle Huppert — twenty-three when it was shot — a name in European cinema; she plays Pomme's stillness with a precision that lands harder than any crying scene could. Stream "The Lacemaker" (1977) on iFILM.
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