Pourquoi pas moi?
Directed by Stephanie Giusti
This was in fact the first movie I had borrowed from Alliance François library. The short summary at the back cover instilled my interest and I wanted to check this movie, based on a bunch of young, extremely good-looking homosexual guys and gals, who decide to disclose the truth about their sexuality to their un-suspecting parents.
Well the plot is somewhat predictable. The parents are almost shell-shocked to find that their children are “homosexuals” and not normal. However I still enjoyed the light-hearted comic way the movie moves. How truth of the parents also gets revealed. In fact, in one case, the father of the only girl, whose sexual orientation is “normal” meaning she is heterosexual, expresses his disgust at the other parents’ disappointment. He demands to be a liberal through voting for the communist and having Che posters. Hence true to his liberal thoughts he is open to homosexuality. However few scenes down, he finds it difficult to accept his wife being a homosexual once in her life.
Another girl’s father, a scientist, even thinks of cleansing this sexual anomaly with whatever knowledge he has. According to him, it is genetic disorder and could not be allowed. The bull-fighter ( a short role played by Johny Hallyday)finds her daughter’s homosexuality, a threat to his own image as a virile, strong “man”.
Pourquoi Pas Moi, is not a great film. It has its own shortcomings and at times becomes too preachy. It seems, these guys, heading a publishing house and plagued by lack of funds are too busy discussing their right of sexual emancipation is which so ever way, rather than fighting to fend for their magazine.
However still, I liked the movie for the throughout breezy, light mood and yet highlighting the issues of gender and sexuality in a stark manner. The most interesting part of the movie is where, it brings forth the fact that for a woman, the issue is much more than homo or heterosexuality. For a woman it is sexuality which is almost forbidden. Her consciousness and desire of sexual right seems to be a taboo concept even in a progressive westernised society.
Overall good and no harm in watching…
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