Word: salons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pomme (Isabelle Huppert) is an eighteen-year-old attendant in a Parisian beauty salon, yet she doesn't like to wear make-up. Her best friend is Marilyn, an older woman who is frantically trying to preserve her attractive looks in search of wealthy men. Marilyn is drawn to Pomme because she envies Pomme's innocence; although Marilyn herself dresses elaborately, she gives Pomme a plain green sweater for her birthday...
Stripped down to its essentials, The Lacemaker resembles dozens of tearjerkers about doomed, poor-meets-rich love affairs. The heroine, Pomme (Isabelle Huppert), is 18, a shy attendant at a Paris beauty salon. The hero, François (Yves Beneyton), is a bookish university student from a proper bourgeois family. The two come together while vacationing in glorious Normandy, then return to Paris and set up house on the Left Bank. There the innocent, star-crossed romance suffers a heartbreaking fate at the hands of the cruel real world...
...poetry was scented with opiate-rich darkness, would have enjoyed the scene. For here, in this glass-fronted room glowing out of the duck of Boston, the sophisticates peered and exclaimed much as they would have a century or more ago at the opening of a Paris Salon. While describing the "Painter of Modern Life" in the mid-19th century, Baudelaire had hinted of the paradox that attends modernity...
...RECIPE sounds like a sure-fire concoction for comic relief: take on pudgy post-pubescent with an effeminate face and a flair for tight-fitting French jeans and outmoded platform shoes; garnish with a sissy's voice and a drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved...
...Turner has clearly made it in the drag queen biz by the finale of the number, judging by the roaring ovations on the screen and in the theater, and you find yourself somehow sharing Turner's bizarre triumph. He has come a long way from the suburbanite-catering hair salon and the endless hours before the mirror in lipstick and wigs; the future...