PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Brian W. Fairbanks "Ma Vie En Rose," winner of the 1997 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film (its English title is "My Life in Pink"), concerns Ludo, a 7-year-old boy who likes to dress up as a girl and dreams of marrying a boy, even staging a mock wedding with himself decked out in a pink satin dress and pearls. His parents are appalled. When Ludo makes an appearance at a family gathering dressed as a girl, the father covers his embarrassment with nervous laughter and insists his son is just joking. The mother drags him to the sink to wash off his lipstick. When Ludo continues to cross-dress, they take him to a therapist "to set him straight." Ludo's attempts to be a typical boy prove disastrous, however. When he tries to kiss a girl, she knocks him to the ground. "I don't kiss girls," she sneers. He proves too gentle for football, and when another boy sees him through the opening of a toilet stall, sitting down to pee, he explains that he's a "girl-boy." Of course, Ludo is almost certain to grow up to be homosexual or transgender, perhaps opting to change his gender through surgery. The film doesn't take us that far into the future, but does conclude on a note of acceptance. "Whatever happens, you'll always be my child," the father tells Ludo, shortly before the credits roll.The boy in "Ma Vie En Rose" is adorable, and is very convincing when dolled up as a female. The film itself is quite lovely. Undoubtedly, there are those who would assail it as propaganda meant to promote tolerance toward homosexuals and gender-bending boys. Maybe it is, but the fact remains that there are boys who want to be girls, and such boys would exist even if a film like Ma Vie En Rose did not. If it succeeds in making the life of a "girl boy" easier, what's wrong with that?Brian W. Fairbanks

tedg I think I like "Muriel's Wedding," which covered the same general territory, better.Superficially, this is a story about a girl in a boy's body. At least all the descriptions and summaries say so. And the parents in this think so. It isn't a life, only a couple weeks, and we have no idea what happens to this child. Even though a joke is made of misunderstanding the science of sex, the characters here (and the filmmaker too, it seems) conflate homosexual, transgender, hermaphrodite and crossdressing behavior.(There should be a word for this class. But I suppose anyone in it would exclude some others.)Never mind. The gender business is merely an excuse to explore deeper issues of disconnection between child and parent. Though I suspect few viewers will have had similar gender confusion, all will resonate to how difficult it is to make the story you inhabit.This is a movie with the child's movie within. Following Ted's rule, the level of abstraction between the movie and the movie within is the same distance as between the movie and us.Its well enough engineered to make you cry.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

samsoum Being a movie fanatic and reviewer, I was invited to the "Semaine du Cinema Francophone" in Beirut (francophone cinema week). The movie taught me the word "tolerance" as I was one of these stupid guys who mocked on effeminate people. (Maybe to reject my desire at this age to be free to disguise myself, like Ludovic did in the movie). What I know is that being in a place that was supposed to gather cultivated people, journalists and movie reviewers, cinema lovers, artists, etc. I was chocked to hear people laughing at some scenes that were supposed to be moving, sensitive and very important humanely. Also the sound going out public mouth: "tsss tsss tsss" was so chocking that I felt more the pressure of "non-tolerant' society inside the movie theater itself, more than the pressure Ludovic had to endure in his story. My personality was projected into Ludovic who suffered his moments in the film, while I was personally suffering inside the theater and trying to vibe with the movie, despite chocked snobbish people's reaction. An excellent movie. Rather a drama than a comedy!

tammyshh The first time I saw this movie i loved it. But the other day when I saw it on DVD I was really, really moved and I just wanted to write about this, I mean it's beautiful, everyone has to see it, It's a lovely story with powerful performances and a great art direction. It kind of reminded me of Edward Scissorhands (I really don't know why). After the success of Transamerica and Brokedown Mountain and all these movies with gay themes all I can say is that this movie was way ahead of it's time. Even do it won a Golden Globe and many other awards, I think that it's was a pity that it didn't won an Oscar... ..After all life wasn't that pink for this film. Too bad