French Film Series Fall 2016
MFLL Department-Florence Abad Turner at fabadtur @utk.edu
Amours Volés et Malentendus Identitaires
Let's explore this semester the LGBT representation and the question of sex and gender in France with three excellent movies: Tomboy, Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! and La Cage aux Folles. We will follow the tribulations of young Laure to become a boy, Guillaume who is socially conditioned and an old gay couple Albin and Renato trying to be accepted by their straight children.
All movies are in French with English subtitles
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table by Guillaume Gallienne France 2013
Mrs. Gallienne, a rather temperamental upper middle-class lady, has three children, two of whom she considers as her sons and another she calls Guillaume. Logically indeed, the latter teenage creature does not picture himself as a boy, rather as a girl or at best as a homosexual. But how can a mother act in such an objectionable way? And why? Through a series of painful chain of experiences, Guillaume will discover little by little who he is actually and will manage to break free from her pernicious influence.
- Written by Guy Bellinger