Claire Dolan (1998) ( Claire Dolan )

Claire Dolan (1998) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Claire Dolan
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lodge Kerrigan

Written By:
Lodge Kerrigan

Actors:
Katrin Cartlidge ..... Claire Dolan
Vincent D'Onofrio ..... Elton Garrett
Colm Meaney ..... Roland Cain
Patrick Husted ..... George
Muriel Maida ..... Claire's Mum
Madison Arnold ..... Priest
Jim Frangione ..... Man In Bar
Ed Hodson ..... Driver
Sean Powers ..... Driver's Friend
Sally Stark ..... Waitress at Newark diner
Maryann Plunkett ..... Mary Egan
Sarah Rose Hendrickson ..... Siobhan, Mary's daughter
Candy Buckley ..... Salon client 1
Lizbeth MacKay ..... Administrator
Svetlana Jovanovich ..... Eva

Synopsis:

American filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan (Clean, Shaven) directed this French production, set in New York. Dublin native Claire (Katrin Cartlidge of Naked and Career Girls) is a New York prostitute constantly working to eliminate her debt to menacing Roland Cain (Colm Meaney), who's known her since she was a child. After the death of her mother, Claire sets out to unleash her pent-up feelings and gain control of her life. She meets a guy in a bar and has sex, is befriended by calm cabbie Elton (Vincent D'Onofrio), visits her Newark cousin, plays with her niece, and eventually tells Elton that she wants to have a baby. Atonal score by Ahrin Mishan and Simon Fisher. Shown in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Drama. Claire lives in New York and works as a prostitute to pay off a debt to gangster Roland Cain. She begins an affair with Elton, a taxi driver, and begins a slow move towards changing the circumstances of her life.

Electrifying indie auteur Lodge Kerrigan, following up his cult ordeal Clean, Shaven explores the desolate existence and paranoid perspective of a women lost in a tangle of high-end prostitution and urban anxiety. Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge, Naked, Breaking The Waves), an Irish immigrant in Manhattan, pays off her debt to a formidable gangster/pimp (Colm Meaney, The Snapper, Layer Cake) by submitting herself, as a call girl, to this whims of anonymous businessmen. Craving an ordinary existence and living in cold dread of losing her sense of self, Claire attempts to bond with a quietly troubled cab driver (Vincent D'Onofrio, Full Metal Jacket, Ed Wood) and remake her life. Both a dramatic exploration of exploitation and a psychological portrait of modern womanhood adrift in a world of violation and rootlessness, and filmed by Kerrigan with a poet's awareness of detail, Claire Dolan stands as one of the 1990's most significant and affecting works of cinema.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 December, 2020.