Chantilly Lace (film)

Chantilly Lace
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Genre Drama
Written by Gisela Bernice
Directed by Linda Yellen
Starring
Music by Patrick Seymour
Country of origin United States
Production
Producer(s) Rosanne Ehrlich
Linda Yellen
Kathy Zotnowski
Cinematography Paul Cameron
Editor(s) Christopher Cooke
Running time 101 minutes
Production company(s) Showtime Networks
Distributor Columbia TriStar Home Video
Release
Original network Showtime
Original release July 25, 1993 (1993-07-25)

Chantilly Lace is a 1993 American made-for-television drama film shot in Sundance, Utah for the Showtime Network and eventually released on video via Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.[1] The film was directed by Linda Yellen and features dialogue that was largely improvised by its ensemble cast.

Plot

Over three seasons, seven friends gets together at a cabin in the Colorado Rockies to connect, grow and cope with life.

Cast

Production

Inspired by Christa Wolf's, Cassandra, Yellen said she originally conceived of "Chantilly Lace" because of the preponderance of "incomplete roles for women, who are sketched instead of developed" in the movie business. She further developed it at the Sundance Film Institute, while Showtime provided production financing.[2]

Yellen worked from a 40-page outline — instead of a screenplay — to extract improvisation from her performers.[3]

The film, often compared to The Big Chill, was shot over eight days. Parts of the film were shot at Sundance Resort and Provo Canyon in Utah.[4]

Themes

The Sundance director of feature film, Michelle Satter, said the film explores the landscape of contemporary women’s issues with humor and honesty 'unlike any American film' that she had seen.[3]

Reception

Ken Tucker wrote, for Entertainment Weekly, that the film was "the only kind of feminist slant that gets much exposure on television: well-to-do white women grousing about horrible men and about their mostly unfulfilled needs to be creative."

Emanuel Levy gave it a C+ and described it as "Amiable, well-acted but middlebrow femme-driven melodrama"[5]

References

  1. ↑ Tucker (1993). "Chantilly Lace".
  2. ↑ Leonard (1993). "One Hundred Years of Altitude".
  3. 1 2 Frook (1993). "Yellen's 'Lace' gets blue ribbon".
  4. ↑ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.
  5. ↑ http://www.emanuellevy.com/review/chantilly-lace-2/
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