Ma vie en rose
Ma vie en rose English translation My Life in Pink is a 1997 Belgian drama film directed by Alain Berliner. It tells the story of Ludovic, a child who is seen by family and community as a boy, but consistently communicates being a girl. The film depicts Ludovics family struggling to accept this transgressive gender expression. The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Trouble begins when Ludovic befriends Jrme, the son of her fathers boss, and expresses a desire to marry him when Ludovic is finally not a boy. When visiting Jrmes house, Ludovic enters his sisters room and puts on one of her dresses, not realizing that the sister is deceased and the room was merely kept in memory of her. Jrmes mother sees this and she and the rest of the neighbors are horrified. The community turns against Ludovic and, by extension, the rest of the Fabre family. After Ludovic stands in as Snow White in a school play, the parents of the other students send in a petition to have her expelled. Ludovics father, under strain as an employee of Jrmes father, is unable to cope and causes conflict within the family. After a particularly bad argument, Ludovic attempts to mend the situation by hiding in a freezer to commit suicide. She is found in time and allowed to wear a skirt to a neighborhood party. While the other neighbors greet her warmly, Ludos father gets fired the next day and finds his house spray painted with graffiti. Ludo runs out of the house, distraught. Hanna, Ludovics mother, gets furious at Ludo for saying that. She blames Ludovic for everything that has gone wrong. Hanna wants to set Ludo straight so she cuts her hair to make her look like her brothers. Ludo hates her mother for doing this and wants to live with her grandmother.When Ludo and her grandmother go visit Ludos parents one weekend, the father announces that he has a new job, but it is out of town, and that they have to move. ........
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