Ma Vie en Rose (1997) [DVD, Import, All Regions] Cast: Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey Director: Alain Berliner

This is an excellent film with an amazing performance by the child star. Imaginative and gripping— and the message of hatred for gender-divergent children is still sadly relevant.

Ma vie en Rose, I think I saw it on a cinema first time. I think it's a really lovely, emotional film. It is about a boy, who wishes that he was born as a girl and refuses to behave boyish and the complications that follows. It's about the urge of being able to yourself and to be able to express the inner you. As the title says, it's a French movie. The father has a hard time accepting this fact but there are also support from others in the family. It's sad, emotional, happy and funny.

"why are transgenders the way they are?" "my child seems to want to be the opposite gender. what do i DO?!!!" "why isnt everyone heterosexual?""why is it that i have unwanted attractions for the same gender?" "why is it that i seem to feel like i am a female trapped in a mans body, or ... vica versa, and what do I DO about that ? How do I explain to others what i am trying to deal with?"if you have ever asked those questions....get this film.there are no "bad" characters. you WILL identify and empathize with the parents, the neighbors, the grandmother, the siblings... everyone. what a good film does...

This film shows a normal family, which must face the fact, that life can be different than expected. Parents that do not know that nobody can change his sexual orientation. The unsuccessful trying tortures them. Their marriage almost goes broken, but the most suffers the child, more than the cute litte acter is able to show.The films might try to urge us to understand our kids and stand at their side rather than fulfillling the expectations of the neiborhood. The film plays in a slightly older world and therefore makes me hoping, that this got better nowadays. The film is realistic and very worth to be seen and offers a surprising end.

A delightfully sensitive story of a 7-year-old boy who insists he wants to be a girl. "My other X chromosome accidentally landed in the trash!" he believes. Made in 1997, before much of the political hoopla currently accompanying the idea of adult transsexuality, this film offers an honest, intimate and occasionally very funny portrayal by young Georges DuFresne of the boy's instance on what he feels, the consequences to his family and friends, and the adjustments everyone must eventually make to the whole idea.

So, seven-year old boy decides he's a girl and plans to marry his male playmate (wow) The alternative :Instead, he should come out as gay, and when both of them mature (?) , he can still marry his old maleplaymate. Know it' s confusing, but seems to be best solution (forget about transgender) ! ! !

If you are a teacher and want to show a film that treats gender and childhood in complex ways, I highly recommend this film. The main character, Ludo, is a young boy who is struggling with gender identity. His French parents do not understand him and react in many typical and mainstream ways to his struggles. It takes a sympathetic grandmother and community to show his parents that they are thinking in backwards, unproductive, and class-based ways about their child's struggle.

This is a great film. Can't believe how much has changed since it first came out. But I enjoy it's lack of political bent and that it shows real complications and dilemmas of a middle class family having to deal with such an issue in the 90s.