Ma Vie En Rose

UPC: 043396039513

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity]

Summary: Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, but one child isn't so sure in this Belgian comedy drama. 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges DuFresne) is happy, healthy, and good-natured, but there's a bit of a problem -- he has decided that he's a girl. While his parents Hanna (Michele Laroque) and Pierre (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) try to understand, Ludovic stubbornly refuses to listen to reason from his parents, teachers, or schoolmates. His fondness for wearing girl's clothes and frequent pronouncements to strangers that he's going to be a woman when he grows up become increasingly worrying, and things come to a head when Ludovic declares that when he's older, he plans to marry Jerome (Julien Riviere), the boy next door. It hardly helps that Pierre's boss, Albert (Daniel Hanssens), is also Jerome's father, and that he's notoriously closed-minded about gender issues. Will Pierre keep his job? Will the stress spoil Pierre and Hanna's marriage? And will Ludovic find the right shade of lipstick? Ma Vie En Rose was the first feature for director and screenwriter Alain Berliner. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Foreign Language Film – null Best Screenplay – European Film Academy Best Screenplay – European Film Academy Best Foreign Film – National Board of Review Film Presented – Telluride Film Festival Best Foreign Language Film – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Digitally mastered audio and video
Production notes
Interactive menus
Original language: French 2-channel [Dolby Surround]
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Scene selections

Ma Vie En Rose

Format: DVD

Release Date: 12/31/1999

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 88 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [1:35]
2. Going to a Party [3:30]
3. Welcome to Our Home [2:35]
4. Ludovic [4:02]
5. Show & Tell [3:14]
6. "Le Monde de Pam" [6:05]
7. Out of Bounds [6:31]
8. Deciding Factor [3:09]
9. The Therapist [3:14]
10. Bent Boy [2:05]
11. The Barbecue [1:41]
12. Edgy [3:42]
13. XX or XY? [1:45]
14. "I Am a Girlboy." [1:37]
15. Real Little Lady [1:13]
16. Snow White [5:05]
17. Sick of It [2:21]
18. Expelled [1:50]
19. The Washroom [1:05]
20. Lost & Found [2:42]
21. Ludovic's Wish [3:16]
22. Downsized [1:51]
23. Nothing More to Say [3:07]
24. Final Straw [3:27]
25. A Toast [6:47]
26. Chris Delvigne [2:26]
27. Christine's Party [3:35]
28. Always Their Child [5:19]

Rebecca Flint Marx

A charming film that packages social commentary as comic fable, Alain Berliner's Ma Vie en Rose is one of the most convincing films about the clash between childhood fantasy and adult reality. The film takes seriously both the genuine conviction of its protagonist, seven-year-old Ludovic, that he is meant to be a girl, and the accompanying dilemmas faced by his loving but concerned parents. Berliner achieves the rare feat of treating just about all of the film's characters, from Ludo himself to his fearful neighbors, with fairness. When Ludo stages a mock wedding ceremony with the boy next door, who also happens to be the son of his father's boss, the resulting hysteria of the boy's parents is neither endorsed nor condemned. Rather than pointing a finger, Berliner shows us how people react to difference, whether with understanding or hostility. Ma vie en rose works best as a social satire, in which suburban conformity is discouraged as much as individuality is lauded. Both buoyant and perceptive, it is one of the most intelligently crafted celebrations of self-expression ever committed to the screen. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Daniel Hanssens  Actor 
Marie Buñuel  Actor 
Laurence Bibot  Actor 
Baehr  Actor 
Julien Riviere  Actor 
Jean-François Gallotte  Actor 
Alain Berliner  Director 
Alain Berliner  Screenwriter 
Dominique Dalcan  Composer (Music Score) 
Carole Scott  Producer 
Chris Van der Stappen  Screenwriter 
Michèle Laroque  Actor 
Jean-Philippe Ecoffey  Actor 
Hélène Vincent  Actor 
Georges Du Fresne  Actor 

Country: Belgium,France,UK