Madame
General Information
- Author/Creator
- Riethauser, Stéphane, director
- Language
- French.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Switzerland : Sweet Spot Docs, 2019.
- Physical Description
- Digital film (94 mins.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_10000745
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Madame takes us on an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother and her filmmaker grandson Stéphane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Promised to a domestic life in the 1920s, Caroline frees herself from the clutches of a forced marriage and becomes a successful businesswoman, defying the social rules of her time. In parallel, Stéphane struggles to play the role everyone expects in his Swiss bourgeois family, until the day he comes out of the closet and sets off on a crusade against homophobia and sexism. A family saga based on private archive footage, the film offers a dialog between this extravagant matriarch and her gay grandson, challenging the taboos of gender and sexuality.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Note
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
| Item Type |
Current Location |
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Shelving Location |
Public Note |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | HU_OSA_10000745.mp4 | Available | | Access Copy, MP4 format |