One more awesome Yves Boisset's piece of work.
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Daring, disturbing, uncomfortable for many audiences, as usual with Boisset, useless to say that the latest encountered many problems with his movies. This one…
Daring, disturbing, uncomfortable for many audiences, as usual with Boisset, useless to say that the latest encountered many problems with his movies. This one was made during the late eighties where it was not yet question of WOK fashion, LGBT tendancies, as now in 2023. This films was ahead of its time, and believe me, was not widely shown on French TV. Acting is sometimes a bit weak but the story very riveting. Maybe the like of Claude Chabrol could have made such a film, but certainly not the Hollywood film industry. This is not the most known from Yves Boisset, such a shame. I will never get tired of him. Never.
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Transformer
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This is not what you expect from Yves Boisset, the militant director whose best works deal with burning subjects ; you first think it's not the right way to…
This is not what you expect from Yves Boisset, the militant director whose best works deal with burning subjects ; you first think it's not the right way to tackle feminism :what? a look at prostitution, some lesbianism and a return to "normality " in the shape of the most horrid hairy macho you could think of...But further acquaintance shows this : this is a feminist movie,even though it shows the destruction of the heroine :first a lawyer with good prospects ,but who is given insignificant affairs because her boss always saves the best bit for himself ;then a transvestite turned pimp in the prostitution world : Miss Zabou (Breitman)'s metamorphosis is a genuine tour de force ;with her raincoat,her tie and her male cutting ,she literally becomes a man ;she's even almost scary .She makes friends with a prostitute who becomes her lover .... and she passes for her pimp in this red-light district !and after her death , she 's hired as a maid in a bourgeois family where she seduces a mother of two .She tries another way of living ,but her new lover is afraid to lose her children (I don't want my kids to be given to a couple of d.....s !says the husband we never see.)In fact ,the heroine cannot find her place in a man's man's man's world ;her last relationship will be the death of her, at least mentally .....She plays the game of cheating at her own risks : dressed up as a man, sexually attracted by both sexes , usurping another woman's name to get her lover,and finally trying to find a human being to live with who reveals himself a hateful macho...the sexual exploitation of women;although based on a true story ,Boisset's film looks more like a fable than a realistic depiction.Every time ,the man wins it all : be it the lawyer ,the good father or the macho : and Nicole's final act is pointed at all men ,not the happy-go-lucky painter.Zabou (Breitman) gives a Cesar-caliber performance in all her scenes she' s dressed up as a man ; the sadly missed Christine Pascal 's appearance is much too short ,and the rest of the cast is not on a par with them ,particularly Anna Galiena and Yves Alfonso ;Boisset's directing is a bit heavy-handed ,but it's his trademark .His movie is overblown ,but most of his other works almost always are ;they are demonstrative and that's finally what one expects from them.Like this ? try these....."Les Biches " Claude Chabrol,1967"Une Femme, Un Jour " Leonard Keigel ,1977
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@moronville No it's not, I'm French native, the title is The Transvestite (woman dressed as a man) She's a frustrated lawyer in a male dominated industry.