Claude Goretta

Total Credits at Criticker: 6 (Director), 5 (Writer)

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    The Lacemaker
    Beatrice is a very reserved and quiet young woman. Her friend Marylene is left by her lover and brings her to Cabourg (Normandy) for a few days' vacation (imdb)
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    The Invitation
    After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden. (imdb)
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    La mort de Mario Ricci
    The film follows a week in the lives of two journalists visiting a small Swiss village. Bernard Fontana (Mr. Volonte) is a quiet, somber, reflective television journalist, recently crippled in an accident, who is on location to do an interview with the help of his young assistant. Their subject is Prof. Henri Kremer (Heinz Bennent), an expert on world hunger, whose studies of that problem have brought him to the brink of utter despair. (movies.nytimes.com)
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    Nice Time
    Nice Time (1957) - Short Film
    A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by. (imdb)
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    Pas si méchant que ça
    In this comedy, a newly married groom finds himself overwhelmed by business expenses and becomes a crook. The trouble really begins when he falls in love with his victims. (Allmovie)
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    Si le soleil ne revenait pas
    In a mountainside village, where the sun never shines in winter, the old prophet Anzevui announces that, in this year 1937, war will break out and the sun will never shine again. The village is divided into two camps: those who resign themselves to the news, such as Arlettaz who drowns his sorrow in alcohol, and those who keep the torch of hope alight, such as Cyprien who sets out to find the sun. He returns exhausted but a young girl, Isabelle, takes up his struggle... (imdb)
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