Claire Dolan

Claire Dolan (1998)

  • 25% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (297 ratings)

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… More

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Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Nov 18, 1998 Wide
On DVD
Feb 21, 2006
New Yorker Films

Critic Reviews

  • Hannah Brown, New York Post

    In spite of Cartlidge's impressive performance in the lead, the film is simply not as involving or moving as it should be.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    [Kerrigan] accepts the challenge of central characters who do not let us know what they're thinking.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    Devotes so much of its energy to building and sustaining a mood of urban desolation that the story never quite jells.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    Less awful than inert, Claire Dolan comes across as a willfully bad movie.

  • Jeremiah Kipp, Filmcritic.com

    Clinically austere.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Mark A


    A heartbreaking performance by Katrin Cartlidge as a woman caught in an invisible prison of debt and obligation. Colm Meaney is superb as the cold-hearted shylock to whom she owes a debt and pays it off by working in the sex trade. Vincent DOnofrio plays the quiet, working man who… More

  • Dimitris S


    A savage creature lurking in the dark,somber city of New York.Perfect!!!Kerrigan introduces to us a surreal environment in all its passiveness,how illuminating this is,Dardenne portray the suicidal community,their U.S. fellow director dwells in it.The relief of the everyday life,the… More

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