A Common Thread (Brodeuses)
At the age of 17, Claire (Lola Naymark) learns she is pregnant. Eventually, she gets a job as an apprentice to Madame Melikian (Ariane Ascaride), a strange and lonely woman who has recently lost her young son in a motorcycle accident. The reclusive foreigner's business is embroidery for the haute couturiers of Paris. The older woman is still in the throes of grief over the death of her child, while the younger is anxious and confused about the child yet to be born.
Reviews
“Modest in conception and theme, but remarkable in the confidence and maturity of its execution, Faucher's assured first feature brings extraordinary pleasure.”
Kay Armatage, Toronto International Film Festival 2004
Screens With
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When
6:45 PM Sunday, 20 February
Buy Tickets Online
Greater Union - Cinema 1
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
About A Common Thread
88 minutes35mm
1.85:1
DTS Stereo
In French with English subtitles
Print Source
Potential Films
Mark Spratt
potfilms@ozemail.com.au
Awards
Winner, First Film Category, Etoiles d'Or de la Presse, France 2005Grand Prize Critics Week, Screenwriting Award, Cannes Film Festival 2004
Festivals
Toronto 2004London 2004
Rio de Janeiro 2004
About the Director
Eléonore Faucher
Eléonore Faucher studied filmmaking at L'École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumiére in Lyon. She has directed two short films, Les Toilettes de Belle-ville (93) and Ne prend pas le large (98). A Common Thread is her first feature film.