La folle histoire des travestis

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La folle histoire des travestis (2019)

Directed by Jérôme Bermyn, Guillaume Auda

Documentary · 1h 30m

Male and female, women in pants, extravagant or ambiguous, transvestites in their own ways summon up another genre ... of art history! Why do men disguise themselves as women? What about women as men? Why did transvestites make people laugh first, then make people think? Sheltered under the golds of Versailles, the Comédie Française or the venerable Academy, the transvestite broke into hiding before embracing the light. From Shakespeare to Molière, from Charlie Chaplin to Sarah Bernhardt, via Gainsbourg, Colette, Michel Serrault and the Drag Queens, it is the story of a figure who gradually exceeded his status as an outcast to become a source of 'inspiration'.

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Crew

Director
Jérôme Bermyn, Guillaume Auda

Details

Release date
2019-11-08
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
France•5