A Common Thread

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A Common Thread
A Common Thread film poster
Directed by	Éléonore Faucher
Produced by	Alain Benguigui, Bertrand Van Effenterre
Written by	Éléonore Faucher, Gaëlle Macé
Starring	Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride
Distributed by	New Yorker Films (USA)
Release date(s)	14 May 2004
Running time	89 minutes
Language	English
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A Common Thread (Brodeuses) is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. The film is known as Sequins in the United States.

The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It is also nominated for "European Discovery of the Year" at the 2004 European Film Awards.

[edit] Plot

When Claire (played by Lola Naymark) learns that she is five months pregnant at the age of seventeen, she decides not to abort the baby and not to tell the man she had the child with (who seems to be married). Instead, she quits her current job at a local supermarket and goes to work as an assistant for Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), an embroiderer for haute couture designers. Mélikian has just lost her only son in a motorcycle accident. Claire shows her willingness in taking her duties, as well as taking over Mélikian's private order when she is treated in the hospital.