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An Australian reader tells us, "A good movie in french language and a movie that getsyou thinking and it is a hard movie to watch. I'd give it four stars. La Vie en rose was directed by Alain Berliner. It is one of his first films. The film was recohgnized at th Festival of Cannes (1997) and Montréal.
The boy was played by French child actor George de la Fresne. Other actors included: Michèle Laroque ( the mother ) an Hélène Vincent( the granmother ).
The lead charactor is a 6-year old boy named Ludovich Fabre. He had two older brothers. They are typical little boys who love soccer. They have a big sister who is 14 years old. The mum is beautiful and loves Ludovic despite his problems. Whle he is 6 years old, he is played by a 9 year old.
A family settles in a city suburb. They decide to imntegrated quickly into their new neighborhood. They organize a barbecue. During this party a little boy came dressed as a girl. It was the beginning of many trouble within the family and with friends. A 9 year old boy loves to wear girl clothes and the whole world including parents and schoolmates think he is nuts. Ludovich dreams about 'Pam' a living woman doll time persona who lives on tv and billboards dotted around the cityscape. She is pictured in a dreamy fantasy world of posh houses and frocks. Pink is everywhere and it a fantasy land for little Ludovic who has a pageboy hair cut as he likes it and he feels more like a little girl, He loves being a girl in party frocks'wedding dresses and satin and silk frocks with puffy sleeves. Ludovic becomes a little girl in his dreamland. He sleeps in his pink bed and dances around in his dreamland. He has a mock wedding with a neighbor boy and Ludovic puts on a pink frock and makeup to be the bride and the other 'her' husband. No one is able to prevent this boy ( Ludovic ) fom dreaming about being a girl. The powerlessness of his parents facing to the determination.
His mother is sympathetic, but his brother and father or not. The family goes through hell because of Ludovic and his fantasies. The family tries to force him conform. He gets into problem at school, both with the teachetrs and the other boys. His brothers let him get beat up at school. His dad takes him to get a a short back and sides like his brother have. He is sent to live with his nanna to give the rest of the family a break from his fantasies. In the end, his family becomes more understanding, but they move away from their neighborhood.
A French reader writes, "Into this film , we can see the face of intolerance--the hysterial reactio of people comfronted with difference. The regard to the difference of what is normal for somebody and not normal for others persons is a problem of tolerence.
The openss of the mind of some person and the primitive reaction by the obstinacy intolerant of others is current in our society. We have no responsability a o what our birth gives.
Ludovic wanted to be a girl. Why not? He says, "I am a boy, but later I will be a girl.
For children, all is possible. They live in a world where all is possible. Aworld ofpoetry. Openes. Nothing is played. Nothing is cleary defined. All can still change. That is the purety of the child. A child must be protect for his way of thinking and feeling. His mind must be also protect agains all sort of aggresion that the moden world can give. The blue mustn't be only for boy and the pink only for girl. Each one would have the possibilty to choise without fear.
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