L'Ampélopède
{{short description|1974 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = L'Ampélopède
| image =
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| director = Rachel Weinberg
| producer = Jean-Marie Marguet
| writer = Rachel Weinberg
| starring = Isabelle Huppert
| music = Carol Escoffier
| cinematography = Claude Bécognée
| editing = Philippe Delesalle
| studio = Nanou Film
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|1974|9|25|df=yes}}
| runtime = 83 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
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L'Ampélopède is a 1974 French fantasy film directed by Rachel Weinberg and starring Isabelle Huppert.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/155690/L-Ampelopede/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102132213/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/155690/L-Ampelopede/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 November 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Clarke Fountain |date=2012 |title=NY Times: L'Ampélopède |accessdate=16 May 2010 }}
Plot
A young woman resents the negative effects of urbanisation in Sainte-Montaine, the village in Sologne where she lives. She makes up a fantastic strange creature, the Ampélopède, which dwells in a forest.
Cast
- Isabelle Huppert - the narrator
- Patricia Pierangeli - Marie-Thé
- Jean-Marie Marguet - the Ampélopède
- Jean Pignol - Monsieur Pignolet
- Philippe Lehembre - Docteur Saxe
- Louise Dhour - the witch
- Valentine Pratz - Valentine
- Louise Rioton - the lady
- Claude Cernay - the waiter
- Robert Desrouets
- Camille Desmoulins
Reception
A review in Le Monde wrote: "Rachel Weinberg mixes fictional and reportage styles; she brings together and organizes different elements of reality; she places in a present where the villagers can no longer act, but simply speak, rehashing memories and traditions, the ironic and bitterly burlesque images of a possible future."{{Cite news |date=1974-09-30 |title=" L'Ampelopède " |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1974/09/30/l-ampelopede_2526803_1819218.html |access-date=2025-06-01 |language=fr}}
References
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= Further reading =
:*Mireille Amiel, Cinéma 74, no. 193, December 1974, p. 144
External links
- {{imdb title|id=0284849|title=L'Ampélopède}}
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Category:1970s French-language films
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