Marvin (2017)

Original title

Marvin ou la belle éducation

Directed by

Anne Fontaine

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 117 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gay actor in Paris works on a one-man show about his difficult childhood. The performance forces him to confront his past and the people who shaped him.

emotionalpersonalreflectiveintimatecoming-of-agepoignantintrospectivesomber

What happens

Reinventing Marvin (French: Marvin ou la belle éducation) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It screened in the Horizons section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2017, and won the Queer Lion. The film stars Finnegan Oldfield as Marvin, a gay actor in Paris who is struggling to write and perform a one-man theatrical show about his childhood. Isabelle Huppert appears playing herself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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