
By dint of inventing stories, a boy neglected by his mother comes to lead a double life.

By dint of inventing stories, a boy neglected by his mother comes to lead a double life.
1996-05-31
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6.3A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
5.9A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.
6.6How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
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