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La Travestie (1988)
Directed by Yves Boisset
Drama, Crime · 1h 47m
Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes a pimp for one of the women. She also has an affair with a man who indicates that he doesn't want a serious relationship. Nicole's loneliness leads her to the affairs as she continues the downward spiral into schizophrenia in this depressing psychological drama.
Cast
Zabou Breitman
Yves Afonso
Bernard Farcy
Anna Galiena
Valérie Steffen
Christine Pascal
Odile Schmitt
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Crew
- Director
- Yves Boisset
- Screenplay
- Yves Boisset
- Novel
- Alain Roger
- Director of Photography
- Yves Dahan
- Original Music Composer
- Philippe Sarde
- Editor
- Laurence Leininger
Details
- Release date
- 1988-08-03
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France