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Laurence Anyways

7.6 / 10

168 minutes

2012-05-18

French

CA

Actors :

Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri, Susan Almgren, Yves Jacques, Sophie Faucher, Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Catherine Bégin, Emmanuel Schwartz, Jacques Lavallée, Perrette Souplex, Patricia Tulasne, David Savard, Monique Spaziani

Description

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

Reviews

badelf

badelf

6/30/2022, 3:07:24 AM

It would be wrong to call this "just another TG movie." It's an intense love story, told in a throwback avant-garde style, which is pretty impressive. I enjoyed both the art that was intended to reflect the lives of two artists, as well as the story.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/25/2024, 6:56:10 AM

Xavier Dolan pretty much tries to rewrite the gender identity book with this overly long, but quite potent look at the life of "Laurence" (Melvil Poupaud). He is a pretty discontented man who announces to his long term girlfriend "Fred" (Suzanne Clément) that he is deeply unhappy in his own skin, and that he feels he would be much more fulfilled as a person if her were to be a woman. She's a bit t...