Mrs.Gallienne is a middle class woman and has a unequal temper. She has 3 child, one of them she calls Guillaume. When that child is at the age of puberty, he can’t imagine himself as a boy or a girl or a homosexual. After painful experiments, Guillaume will discover himself and advoid negative effects.
15 October 1967, Dietzenbach, Hesse, Germany
10 May 1933, Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
27 November 1979, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France
1 March 1973, Thionville, Moselle, France
8 February 1972, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
15 July 1976, Algermissen, Lower Saxony, Germany
17 December 1989
December 04, 2014
Based on Gallienne's one-man theatre show, the film camps its way through flamenco-style dancing, a German spa, sexual near-misses and an English boarding school.
February 12, 2015
Funny, thoughtful and bubbling over with feeling, the feature shines brightest and rings truest when its driving force is at his best -- which, thankfully, is most of its brief running time.
February 05, 2015
Any self-pity is outweighed by a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour.
December 02, 2014
Every social group is reduced to the crudest cliché.
February 02, 2015
Quirky, yes, but perhaps not as commercially approachable as it was in France, where screen culture is more adventurous and experimentation is welcomed
July 10, 2013
[It reminded] the Cannes audience that it was okay to laugh. Lightweight, but winningly amusing.
October 16, 2013
Gallienne is the androgynous clown minus the costume that wants us to laugh and cry with him.
March 13, 2014
It takes a bit of effort to get into Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!, but it's worth the work.
April 26, 2016
Moving seamlessly between stage and screen enactments, Guillaume, who plays both himself and his neurotic, chain-smoking mum, concocts plenty of blackly comic moments.
December 09, 2014
Once you adjust to the exuberant theatricality and goofy comedy it does start to grow on you.
