Thursday, April 10 – 6.30 pm
A session on transvestism in cinema, presented by Émilie Cauquy, from the Cinémathèque Française. In the presence of Hélier Cisterne.
In partnership with
L’Avventura galante di un provinciale by Luca Comerio
1908 / Italy / Fiction / 4′
A man meets a woman in town and takes her to his hotel.
Je ne voudrais pas être un homme by Ernst Lubitsch
1918 / Germany / Fiction / 45′
Deciding to experiment with male freedom, a young woman cross-dresses and goes out for a night of adventures. An avant-garde and subversive Lubitsch that mischievously explores gender norms.
Les Paradis Perdus by Hélier Cisterne
2008 / France / Fiction / 30′
One night in May 68, Isabelle, a young schoolgirl, returns home in a state of shock. Her parents, overwhelmed, decide to take her to the countryside to escape the unrest in Paris. The next day, Isabelle had only one thing on her mind. To go back to Paris. Little did she know that she was heading in a completely different direction.