L'Ampélopède is a 1974 French fantasy film directed by Rachel Weinberg and starring Isabelle Huppert.
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."
References
Further reading Mireille Amiel, Cinéma 74, no. 193, December 1974, p. 144 External links