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...stunning: a seven-year-old in lipstick and a borrowed pink dress. Anyway, the sight stuns the parents of the boy who makes his entrance so gaily bedecked. He is Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a sweet child convinced he's a girl. No point in lecturing the lad; Ludo blithely pursues his obsession. Of a school chum, he says, "We're going to marry when...
...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
This is no tract; all the characters have reasons for their outbursts. But the film is most sympathetic to Ludo's desperate, deadpan certitude that he'd enjoy being a girl. Like last year's magnificent Ponette, Ma Vie en Rose is an inside report--neither cloying nor condescending--from the enchanted, irradiated island of childhood...
...humbly comes home when his wife sends him a note saying: "God forgive me ... if I should judge you." These stories were originally published in 1925, and the problem of white and black that is currently convulsing South Africa is touched on in only one; grimly and perhaps prophetically, Ludo-vitje describes an African native as the only man strong enough to dig the graves for the white family that employs...
...Questa es nula konference por formacar alianci, por dividar la preduri di milito, por repartar landi, por traktar homa enti, velut se li esud la gaji in un ludo di hazardo. Nia skopo, sub fortunoza auspicii, es sikurigar la continuations dil prospero di paco...