Abstract
ABSTRACTÉléonore Faucher's Brodeuses/A Common Thread (2004) tells the story of 17-year-old Claire (Lola Naymark), who is expecting her first child and intends to give it up for adoption. Unlike other films dealing with youth in France, Faucher privileges a post-patriarchal narrative, which concentrates on Claire and the reclusive Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), an embroideress who is mourning after the accidental death of her young son. In this article, I will analyse Faucher's use of landscapes, music and bodies to show how the film celebrates the sensual, how it questions cinematographic experience at the end of the twentieth century and how it challenges representations of female subjectivity. Faucher's contribution to debates about female subjectivity, spectatorship and genre offers an alternative to recent work by established female directors such as Claire Denis, Catherine Breillat and Jane Campion.
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