Wild Side

France, United Kingdom, Belgium

2004

93 Min

Color

2.35:1

French, English, Russian

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Stéphane Bouquet, Sébastien Lifshitz

CAST Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine, Josiane Stoléru, Perrine Stevenard, Christophe Sermet, Antony Hegarty, Corentin Carinos, Benoît Verhaert, Fabrice Rodriguez, Amine Adjina, Tolsty, Fatima Adoum

PROD DES Véronique Melery, Roseanna Sacco

Berlinale (Panorama): Teddy: Best Feature Film, Manfred Salzgeber Award, Karlovy Vary (Another View), London, Rotterdam (Sturm und Drang), Göteborg, Outfest (Features), Vancouver (Spotlight on France), BAFICI (Panorama), Athens (Sébastien Lifshitz Tribute)

Synopsis

In Paris, the thirty-two years old travesty Stéphanie a.k.a. Pierre is a streetwalker that lives with the Egyptian gay hustler Djamel and the Russian gay Mikhail that works in a restaurant. When the hospital where her mother Liliane is terminal calls her, she travels with her two lovers to the countryside to look after her dying mother. While at home, she recalls her childhood and how she met Djamel and Mikhail. —IMDb

Director

Sébastien Lifshitz

Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Paris in history of art. Wild Side was awarded the Teddy Award for best feature film. —Wikipedia