Man Is a Woman
Synopsis
Simon has only ever been interested in boys. He turned his back on his family, duty and everything to do with Jewish tradition a long time ago. Rosalie was raised in a New York Hassidic Jewish family. Now she gives concert performances on the French Jewish cultural circuit, singing songs in Yiddish in her gorgeous soprano voice. When she sees Simon for the first time, she falls in love — with his clarinet. Simon plays it like a virtuoso. Rosalie knows nothing about his sexual preferences. She figures that anyone who can make her toes curl like that must be an inspired being. Despite their differences, their paths are destined to cross. With imposture on the one hand and misjudgment on the other, any marriage between them can surely only lead to disaster. And yet... Even if their true selves can’t change, little by little their lives will be transformed forever.
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Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films Balenciaga
- Co-production : M6 Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Polygram
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producers : Régine Konckier, Jean-Luc Ormières
- Adaptation : Gilles Taurand, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
- Screenwriters : Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, Joële Van Effenterre
- Director of Photography : Pierre Aïm
- Editor : Monica Coleman
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Lorrain
- Costume designer : Édith Vesperini
- Sound Assistant : Emmanuel Roulot
- Camera Operator : Georges Diane
- Production Manager : Philippe Besnier
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound Editor : Jean-Christophe Winding
- Assistant editors : Nathalie Cvetkovic, Hélène Noir
- Production Assistant : Florence Leonnet
- Continuity supervisor : Agathe Grau
- Production designers : Valérie Grall, Ana Montañana Alba
- Casting : Françoise Menidrey
- Sound Mixer : William Flageollet
- Still Photographer : Nathalie Eno
- Location Manager : Daniel Dubois
- Post-production supervisor : Florence Leonnet
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Homosexuality
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 11/03/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 90.305
- Visa issue date : 05/02/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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As soon as I read it, I felt strong affinities between myself and the character of Simon, the way he’s out of kilter with the world. I saw him as a gentle, funny,
touching, manipulative person on the borderline of a normality that I don’t feel I fit into either, for different reasons than his. I was also attracted by the theme of the impostor whose imposture runs away with him, to the point where he loses track of his own desires. Also, for the first time that I can remember, here I was being offered a real character part to get to grips with, a part that was close to me for the reasons I’ve explained, yet at the same time a world apart. I’m a more or less lapsed Catholic, heterosexual, I hope not too corny, and all I knew about clarinets was the theme tune for a chronic sixties game show. So it was a real acting challenge of the kind I’d been looking for for ages. (Antoine de Caunes)
