Ma Vie en Rose

Ma Vie en Rose (1997)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Family Drama, Domestic Comedy, Childhood Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films  |   Release Date - May 28, 1997 (USA), Dec 26, 1997 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 90 min.  |   Countries - Belgium, France, United Kingdom  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, but one child isn't so sure in this Belgian comedy drama. 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges DuFresne) is happy, healthy, and good-natured, but there's a bit of a problem -- he has decided that he's a girl. While his parents Hanna (Michele Laroque) and Pierre (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) try to understand, Ludovic stubbornly refuses to listen to reason from his parents, teachers, or schoolmates. His fondness for wearing girl's clothes and frequent pronouncements to strangers that he's going to be a woman when he grows up become increasingly worrying, and things come to a head when Ludovic declares that when he's older, he plans to marry Jerome (Julien Riviere), the boy next door. It hardly helps that Pierre's boss, Albert (Daniel Hanssens), is also Jerome's father, and that he's notoriously closed-minded about gender issues. Will Pierre keep his job? Will the stress spoil Pierre and Hanna's marriage? And will Ludovic find the right shade of lipstick? Ma Vie En Rose was the first feature for director and screenwriter Alain Berliner.

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boy, cross-dressing, gender-roles, sexual-identity, ostracism

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High Artistic Quality, Sleeper