Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 95âââ
Claire Dolan, an immigrant, works as a prostitute in New York City in order to pay off an ever-escalating debt to her pimp. When her mother die in a local nursing home, Claire attempts to extricate herself from her life as a call girl. She starts a relationship with a man agrees to have a child with her and help end the debt. In the end, however, Claire realizes that she has only herself to rely on.
"I wanted to make a film about a woman who overcomes a set of difficult circumstances and attempts to change her life, on her own terms. It is her attempts and, ultimately, self-reliance that interests me. By the end of the film, she faces a new set of perhaps even more difficult obstacles that are a direct result of her acting […] But the very fact that she is willing to implement such change, even thought it leaves her vulnerable to the uncertain of the immediate future, is a reflection of her strength and, for me, is admirable." (L. Kerrigan)
Biography
film director
Lodge Kerrigan
Lodge Kerrigan
(New York,
1964), one of the leaders
in American independent cinema, studied Philosophy at Columbia
University and
Cinema at New York University. He got his start in cinema first as a
cameraman
and later directing videoclips and commercials. He debuted in
feature-length
films in 1994 with the independent film Clean, Shaven,
the story of a man suffering from
schizophrenia who tries to get back his daughter, who has been given in
custody
to another family. The film, which was presented at Cannes in the
section Un
Certain Regard, won both critical and box office success. His
next films
were Claire Dolan (1998) with Vincent
D'Onofrio and Katrin Cartlidge in
the role of a prostitute, and In God's Hands (2002).
This film, starring
Peter Sarsgaard and produced by Steven Soderbergh, was never released
due to a
laboratory accident that occurred during processing of the negative.
Soderbergh
also produced Kerrigan's most recent film, Keane (2004),
which was shown
at Cannes in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, in which the
director once more
studies the universe of a man with mental problems, who this time is
tormented
by the kidnapping of his young daughter.
FILMOGRAFIA
Clean, Shaven (1993), Claire
Dolan (1998), Keane
(2004).