Synopsis
MA VIE EN ROSE is a film about difference.Ludovic is a little boy who dreams of being a little girl. What seems normal to him doesn't seem that way to other people. Some things are done and some are not, no matter how natural they may feel to us.
It is also a film about a mother and father who don't know how to deal with the strength and tenacity of their child's belief.
The parents react as best they can, but they are hurt by the disapproval that shows in their neighbours' faces.
It is about a peaceful neighbourhood which discovers difference, the fear of strangeness, lack of understanding and rejection.
It is about dreams, magic and hope.
Director/co-writer Alain Berliner describes MA VIE EN ROSE, which screened in the Directors Fortnight in Cannes this year, as 'a film about difference'. Ludovic is a little boy who dreams of being a little girl. He is also a loner with his own ideas about what is normal and what is not. His mother and father, at a loss over how to deal with the tenacity of their child's beliefs, find themselves at the mercy of a previously peaceful neighbourhood, whose only response to anything they consider out-of-the-ordinary is rejection.
