Cinema
The Sex of the Stars
Le sexe des étoiles
Paule Baillargeon · 1993
Synopsis
Montreal. Camille, twelve, watches the sky through a telescope: she loves the stars, which have no sex. She lives with her mother, Michèle, dislikes the man her mother is seeing, her school's psychologist, and dreams of her father, Pierre-Henri, who left for New York years ago. One evening, he reappears, having become a woman, Marie-Pierre. Camille wants to follow him and sets about persuading him to become a man again, while she befriends Lucky, a boy from her school.
Context
The film adapts Monique Proulx's novel, published by Québec Amérique in 1987, and the novelist wrote the screenplay. Denis Mercier, an actor of very great height, plays Marie-Pierre, and Sylvie Drapeau the mother. The film opened the Montreal World Film Festival, in competition, on 26 August 1993, before a thousand spectators who gave it an ovation. It was distributed in the United States under the title The Sex of the Stars.
Who it is for
One hundred and four minutes, in Quebec French; a childhood story about identity, seen from the height of a twelve-year-old girl.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best Canadian film at the Montreal festival that it had opened, and the Genie Award for best overall sound.
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