GIRL FOR A DAY

France, 18th century. Young Anne is urged to dress as a man and to change her name due to her attraction to women. She marries and embarks on an intense love story with her spouse until past catches up with her on trial. Based upon the true and poignant story of Anne Grandjean, born intersex, and her resounding trial, which still questions many of our certainties today.

Cineuropa

• Trial of female homosexuality? Trial of hermaphroditism? In any case, Girl For A Day reminds us that the question of gendered identities has been shaking people’s consciences for a long time. An important and beautifully staged film (…) Girl For A Day is an important film that addresses the issues of sexual identity without being encumbered by soothing speeches or emphatic attitudes
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• However, the film has the merit of avoiding anachronism: Grandjean is not described as an activist for the LGBT cause before his time; If he claimed a right, it would be the right to indifference to be able to lead his life as a couple as he wished
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• Girl For A Day sways between historical film and contemporary drama, trial film and tragic romance, coming-of-age story and philosophical tale, political and religious satire and the tragedy of a quest for identity; while playing with the definition of the genre of its protagonist (…) The work on shadows, lights and reflections breathes a particular poetry intoGirl For A Day: some images sometimes evokeWatteau’s landscape paintings (…) Inside, the images are reminiscent of De La Tour, with the darkness tinged with the warm, glowing glow of candles.
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• The question of gender permeates a whole section of cinema. But the taboo of “intersex” children is still a rarely discussed subject (…). The director of Girl For A Day manages, with an elegant language, to tell this story and to touch us.
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• Despite an infinitesimal budget, the era is admirably restored, and the film is served by stop guns: Thibault de Montalembert, André Marcon, Isild Le Besco, François Berléand… and THE revelation: Marie Toscan, as amazing in her fragility as in her determination
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