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La Travestie

1988 · 107 min

A bleak, slow descent into loneliness and fractured identity, watching a woman's disguise unravel her mind in a cold, provincial-to-Parisian world.

Overview
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • gender
  • madness
  • corruption
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Yves Boisset
Written by
Yves Boisset
Starring
Zabou Breitman, Yves Afonso, Bernard Farcy, Anna Galiena, Valérie Steffen, Christine Pascal, Odile Schmitt, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Music
Philippe Sarde
Cinematography
Yves Dahan
Runtime
107 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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