A transgender woman returns — with her two male lovers — to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Acting
Michelini's stillness says everything screaming never could.
Cinematography
Bleak northern France never looked this lovingly desolate.
Direction
Lifshitz trusts you to lean in, never panders.
Director
Sébastien Lifshitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the early 2000s French 'New Queer Cinema' wave, when digital video let filmmakers shoot intimate scenes with unprecedented immediacy.
Lifshitz cast Michelini after meeting her at a Paris drop-in center; she had never acted before. Her lived experience is the performance.
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