The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
711 audience votes
Key crew
- Guillaume GallienneScreenplay
- Guillaume GallienneDirector
- Marie-Jeanne SereroOriginal Music Composer
- Nicolas VassilievScreenplay
- Claude MathieuScreenplay
Cast
- Guillaume GallienneGuillaume
- Françoise FabianBabou
- André MarconLe Père
- Diane KrugerIngeborg
- Nanou GarciaPaqui
- Götz OttoRaymund
- Brigitte CatillonTante d'Amérique
- Reda KatebKarim
- Carole BrennerTante Polyglote
- Charlie AnsonJérémy
- Xavier LemaîtreMarc
- Jonathan LouisAppelé militaire (uncredited)