A woman becomes her own father’s fake gay son to find herself. Chaos ensues.
Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris..
Acting
Lemercier plays both genders with committed physical comedy
Direction
Debut feature shows raw but confident comedic timing
Director
Valérie Lemercier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Valérie Lemercier wrote, directed, and starred in this at 35—her first of seven features as director.
The 'men-only' gay bar plot was already dated in 1999; French queer cinema was rapidly evolving beyond this premise.
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