The film, which will premiere today at Cinema São Jorge, is inspired by the true story of the main actor, Alexandre Wetter, an androgynous model who parades female and male clothes.
This year, the French Film Festival will once again focus on several previews of the most recent French production, but it will also replace some films whose exhibition was affected by the closing of cinemas due to the covid-19.
Among the previews are Martin Provost‘s “Manual of the Good Wife” and Juliette Binoche, “Agent Haxe”, by Jean-Paul Salomé with Isabelle Huppert, “De Gaulle”, by Gabriel Le Bomin, and “Thalasso“, by Guillaume Nicloux, with writer Michel Houellebecq and actor Gérard Depardieu.
“Frankie“, by Ira Sachs and shot in Portugal, or “J’Accuse – The officer and the spy“, by Roman Polanski will also be replaced.
In this edition, the French Film Festival will also pay tribute to the French actress, director and activist Delphine Seyrig, with the sessions taking place at the Cinematheque.
Among the films chosen is “Les trois portugaises“, which Delphine Seyrig directed with Carole Roussopoulos and Ioana Wieder, about Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, a revisit of the controversial case of the three writers with the publication, in 1972, of the “New Portuguese Letters“, prohibited by the Estado Novo.
The French Film Festival will end on the 21st in Lisbon with the comedy “My clumsy cousin“, by Jan Jounen.
