Les garçons et Guillaume, à table !

Synopsis

This is the story of a misunderstanding. Young Guillaume, fascinated by his mother, is convinced that he shares the most precious of secrets with her: contrary to appearances he is in fact not a boy... but a girl! And so begins a long quest in search of his identity...

French comedian Guillaume Gallienne was probably not expecting that his one-man show turned film would be such a hit with both critics, who awarded the movie 5 Césars including best film and best actor for Gallienne, and spectators. Don’t take this coming of age comedy seriously, which revels in artistic self-deprecating humor. Guillaume Gallienne is impressive in playing both a young man searching for his identity and his overbearing neurotic mother, somewhere between Eddy Murphy and Woody Allen! American critics were also drawn to the quirkiness of the French comedy released under the name Me, Myself and Mum and compared it to the classic Sydney Pollack comedy with Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie.

Directed by: Guillaume Gallienne (France, 2012)
Cast: Guillaume Gallienne (Guillaume/mother), André Marcon (the father), Françoise Fabian (Babou), Nanou Garcia (Paqui), Diane Kruger (Ingebord), Reda Kateb (Karim), Götz Otto (Raymund), Charlie Anson (Jeremy)
Genre: dramedy
Awards: Best French Film, Best Actor, Best First Film, Best Film Editing, Best Adaptation (César 2014), SACD Prize, Art Cinema Award (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2013).

In French with English subtitles

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