Isabelle Huppert would have been without Claude Goretta, a famous actress, but “La Dentellière” has helped her 1977 breakthrough. She played the 18-year-old Beatrice, called Pomme, a Hairdresser’s apprentice, who falls in love with a student. There is a scene in the you belong to him correctly the first time, naked on the bed, with her nightgown covered. Goretta staged, the ambiguous, the white fabric is erotically charged, but also reminded of a dead shirt as the image for a love that has no Chance.

“La Dentellière” was the biggest success on Wednesday at the age of 89 years, late Director, but by far not the only one. Regularly on a top spot of the “Sunday newspaper” every five years the published list of the best Swiss films to land in addition to the “Lacemaker” and “L’invitation” (1973), a Satire about a garden party under office colleagues. And “Pas si méchant que ça” (1974) about a young heir of a family business that makes Raids, in order to conceal the threat of bankruptcy. Also a then-unknown actor was to see the today everyone is familiar with: Gérard Depardieu.

His work in France was to him a betrayal designed

The 1929 Geneva-born Goretta had an eye for new discoveries, the young Nathalie Baye played one of her first major roles for him, in 1980, in “La provinciale”. It was a great time for movies from the Romandie, Goretta and his colleagues of the “Groupe 5” (of which only three were correctly known) were represented at the Festivals in Cannes and Venice. Alain Tanner is regarded as the political head of the Association was actually founded, with the former “enemy” TV to work. And Michel Soutter (1932-1991) was the Poet. But what Goretta?

His profile with a keyword record, he was the most commercial of the trio, worked immediately in France, than there opportunities. This was interpreted as a betrayal, not only of the own country (“La Dentellière” received no Federal funding because the Film was shot abroad). No, it is also a betrayal of the ‘ 68 was the ideas of the group: Isabelle Huppert as Pomme was not a rebel more like Bulle Ogier as rose Monde in Alain Tanner’s “La Salamandre”. She endured her fate, and dumb.

“Nice Time”, the germ cell of the new Swiss film

But it would be too easy to reduce Goretta on these three movies, by the way, has aged much better than others from that time. The son of a Bank authorised signatory leaves behind an extensive body of work, he turned again and again for television, was hired temporarily. Over the years, countless reports, documentaries, television films were created. All of this in the German part of Switzerland, to discover a help to the 2017 published book “Claude Goretta – The empathetic view” of the film journalists Martin Walder.

it can be read, such as “Nice Time” was created, the 19-minute documentary, the Goretta and Tanner 1956 shot as a beginner in London and is generally regarded as the germ cell of the new Swiss film. Attracted by the so-called Free Cinema, the two had arrived in the British capital, worked for a while in Selfridges, Tanner, the bath towels, Goretta in the Cutlery cleaning agents. In the night, however, they shot under the Eros Statue at Piccadilly Circus in her first movie, the should make history.

Broken love

The cheerful-sad night designing a “Nice Time” are also part of Goretta as a woman, living with six children in a tiny Council flat (TV-Doku “Micheline, six enfants, allée des Jonquilles”). The collective delusion of the inhabitants of the Valais village (in the Ramuz-a film adaptation of “Si le soleil ne revenait pas”) and the tired eyes of Bruno Cremer as Commissioner Maigret (Goretta turned three Georges-Simenon-crime fiction with him).

But the longest one yet, Pomme “of La Dentellière” in memory: her freckled face, the blossoms, but then turns off, if this first love to the conventions of the society breaks apart, and the Film ends on this empty view. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 21.02.2019, 12:47 PM