Josiane Stoleru,
Yasmine Belmadi,
Stéphanie Michelini,
Edouard Nikitine,
Antony Hegarty
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The freewheeling sexuality of three men (one of whom lives as a woman) leads them into a relationship that stretches the traditional bounds of love and friendship in this drama. Stéphanie (Stéphanie M... read more
Directed by: Sébastien Lifshitz, Antony Hegarty, Edouard Nikitine, Liliane Nataf, Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi
Release Date: June 10, 2005
DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005
Stats: 41 reviews
At first I found this film a little dull, uninteresting and not particularly engaging. I think it was Stephanie Michelini's character that grated the most, I understood the two guys and their character's purpose but not hers. The film does however get much better when the three t... read more
This is definitely not an action packed thriller. Think of it more as a French version of Transamerica. Stephanie Michelini plays a pre-surgical transsexual prostitute who returns home to care for her dying mother. A moving performance. Her two live-in lovers join her in the coun... read more
Very well-directed glimpse into the intertwined lives of two bi males and the transsexual they both love. Ironically, Yasmine Belmadi died in a scooter accident this summer; his character tells Mikhail about a serious accident he had on a scooter.
A morbid and self-important homosexual Jules & Jim for the new millennium. Full Review
Viewers are either going to walk out after 10 minutes or, like this tolerant critic, get caught up in the sordid lives of the three misfits and stick around for the ambiguous ending.
Lifshitz successfully maneuvers his trio of outcasts toward a state of grace: His vision of misfit utopianism, in its own quiet way, is as defiant as anything in Fassbinder. Full Review
The woe-is-me, pity-please ambiance with which Lifschitz has suffused his movie becomes more than a little hard to take. Full Review
A weirder ménage à trois you will never encounter. Full Review
Lif****z obviously hopes for the best for Stéphanie and friends, yet the film is filled with doubts and sadness.
Several storylines are hinted at but never fully developed, and some draggy scenes dampen the whole Wild affair. Full Review
Stony and statuesque, Michelini is an excellent casting choice: Her impassive face and dispassionate voice serve as a carefully constructed protective mask that hides her pain, and which she rarely le... Full Review
The film explains why Stéphanie and her bisexual boyfriends need each other, but doesn't depict why they are drawn to each other, making the ménage à trois mechanical. Full Review
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