The Lives of Thérèse (2016)

Original title

Les vies de Thérèse

Directed by

Sébastien Lifshitz

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France

Runtime

55 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows French activist Thérèse Clerc as she contends with a terminal illness. It looks back on her life and work for feminist and LGBT rights.

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What happens

The Lives of Thérèse (French: Les Vies de Thérèse) is a French documentary film, released in 2016. Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, the film is a profile of French feminist and LGBT activist Thérèse Clerc as she battles terminal illness. Clerc died several weeks before the film's theatrical premiere. The film won the Queer Palm for best LGBT-related film at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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