12 October 2008

L'Homme Est Une Femme Comme Les Autres (1998)


Simon Eskanazy, un jeune clarinettiste homosexuel d'origine juive, résiste à sa mère qui voudrait bien le voir marié. L'oncle de Simon, un riche banquier, lui propose de devenir son héritier, à une condition cependant : qu'il convole enfin et ait un descendant. Simon rejette tout d'abord cette proposition mais, expulsé de son appartement, il finit par répondre aux avances d'une cantatrice yiddish, Rosalie Baumann. Elle l'aime sincèrement et a décidé de rester vierge jusqu'au jour de son mariage. Par honnêteté, Simon révèle à Rosalie son homosexualité. Le mariage a tout de même lieu et il est consommé le soir même...

Simon Eskanazy is a young Jewish clarinetist who happens to be gay, resists the demands of his mother that he gets married. Simon's uncle, a wealthy banker, offered him to become his heir in one condition: that he finally ties a knot and gives the family a descendant. He refuses the proposal so he is evicted of his apartment and his luxurious allowance is cut, that's when he finally accepts the advances of a Yiddish singer, Rosalie Baumann. She loves Simon dearly and decides to remain a virgin until their wedding night. Simon honestly reveals his homosexuality to her and the wedding still continues...

L'HOMME EST UNE FEMME COMME LES AUTRES (MAN IS A WOMAN in the US) is an entertaining romantic dramedy that I really enjoyed watching and I have a feeling that a lot of you will do, too.

(In FRENCH & ENGLISH with ENGLISH & FRENCH subtitles)

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

A very good film!

I kept passing it over for other films because of the gay-man-marrying-a-woman-to-make-his-family-happy thing.

But, it's good--inspite of the caricature of brooklyn hasidim, oy!

It's got a weird 80s feel, then you realize it's set in the early 90s, lol.

Lou Kou said...

So true... a good film!

I know of some women marrying gay men... some for convenience and some for true love... would you believe?!?

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