'Boy Erased' and 'Beau is Afraid' star Theodore Pellerin's third movie with the Quebec director is a character study of a young man trying to free himself from an abusive lover and an emotionally absent mother suddenly back in his life.
“Theodore told me, ‘I think for the first time you were talking about yourself,’ because he knows me and could say that,” Dupuis toldafter Pellerin, a close friend and frequent collaborator, read the script forThe stylish French language indie has Dupuis’ signature energy and verve onscreen as Pellerin plays Simon, a rising star in the Montreal drag queen scene, both in stage lights and at home where he’s a makeup artist.
Weakened by his emotional dependency on an abusive partner and an estranged mother, Simon eventually has to decide what’s best for his own life and heart, before his ambition to become a drag star risks being destroyed. Dupuis, it turns out, is on her own journey of self-discovery, as reflected in her latest movie and its screenplay as life mirrors art. “In, he [Pellerin] saw I’m really starting to liberate myself from all life’s norms, every norm that poisoned my adult life, starting from affirming myself as queer to my way of being in relationships, love relationships, the connection I have more with my feelings after I gave myself this permission,” she insisted.
Besides creating a safe space on set as the cameras rolled by ensuring a host of queer talent both in front and behind the camera, Dupuis was keen to ensure the drag show audiences in“When you’re queer, you need to find your people. And when you are telling your story, the audience is not watching and listening for curiosity, because it’s new to them. They’re watching and listening because they know where you’re coming from,” the director said.
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