Ma vie en rose
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| Ma Vie en Rose | |
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 Film poster for Ma vie en rose |
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| Directed by | Alain Berliner |
| Produced by | Carole Scotta |
| Written by | Alain Berliner Chris Vander Stappen |
| Starring | Georges du Fresne |
| Music by | Dominique Dalcan Zazie |
| Cinematography | Yves Cape |
| Editing by | Sandrine Deegen |
| Release date(s) | 1997 |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Country |  France Belgium United Kingdom |
| Language | French |
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Ma vie en rose (My Life in Pink) is a 1997 Belgian film that was directed by Alain Berliner and produced by Carole Scotta.
The main character is a young boy named Ludovic, who believes that he was born in the wrong body and should have been a girl. The film shows the struggle that he and his family go through with his gender identity.
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[edit] Trivia
The film's title might be seen as a pun on the famous chanson La vie en rose, with rose having a very different meaning here than in the song: not being in love but Ludovic's female gender identity.
Although internationally presented as a Belgian movie, the director and screenwriter being both Belgian, the movie was majority-produced by French indie house Haut et Court and shot near Évry, south of Paris.
Le monde de Pam has been invented for the movie, it is not a European clone of Barbie.
Color timing changes as parents exit from the school play, switching to cold blue tones.
The tomboy girl near the end has the same first name as the screenwriter, Chris Vander Stappen, who wrote and directed several movies involving lesbian relationships.
[edit] Controversy
The film was rated R by the MPAA, which has raised much controversy. Dissenting voices are keen to point out that Ma vie en rose has no sexual content, and often feel that the rating is based on the assumption that gender identity and sexual orientation are the same thing.
[edit] Awards
The film won the Golden Globe Award for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998.
[edit] External links
- Sony Pictures Section on the film
- Why is Ma Vie en Rose rated R?
- Ma vie en rose at the Internet Movie Database
