Series Mania: ‘La Garconne’ Puts Gender-Bender Spin on Period Crime Drama
Produced by Paris-based outfit Mother Productions and sold internationally by eOne, the six-part limited series “La Garçonne” offers a playful, gender-bending spin on the period potboiler. Set during the roar of the early 1920s, the show follows a one-time war medic forced to take on not one, but two new identities after she witnesses a murder performed by a pair of government officials.
“The idea of the show is about being a free woman, but also being a free man,” says producer Harold Valentin of Mother Productions. Taking to her new work with zeal, Louise soon begins investigating a murder set in Paris’ bohemian underground – and assumes an additional identity as the carefree flapper Giselle in order to infiltrate the city’s cabarets and jazz bars. .
“Women know what it’s like to [play with gender signifiers],” says Lancelot. “We’ve been doing that since we were kids. Louise embodies this fantasy of playing dress-up as both a gruff man and a girly girl… By necessity, she needs to not only disguise herself as a man, but also as a different kind of woman.”
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