The revenge of If I were a man
Three years after his first feature film as director, Under the girls’ skirtsAudrey Dana directs in 2017 If I were a man. A new comedy that explores the relationship between women and men, with this initial idea: a woman wakes up one morning with a penis. So there is a form of exploration of transience, but this is not the essence of Audrey Dana, who also plays the main role in the film. In fact, If I were a man mixes fantasy with romantic comedy to connect especially the gags related to this sudden and inexplicable change.
Abandoned by her husband who wants to start a new life with another woman, Jeanne, 38 years old and mother of two, decides not to live with a man anymore. When she wakes up at dawn to go to the bathroom, she satisfies her need standing up without realizing it until she goes back to bed and discovers she has a penis. Between giggling with her friend Marcelle and panic attacks at her gynecologist, Jeanne tries to cope with this new situation as best she can…
If the director of the film, even in the screenplay with Maud Ameline, ignores a real questioning of the genres in If I were a manThis is to best unleash her great comic energy, surrounded by talented actors: Christian Clavier in the role of her gynecologist and Alice Belaïdi in the role of her best friend.
A huge critical and commercial failure
The inclination of If I were a man in fact the crude burlesque that emerges from the situations staged convinces only a small part of the spectators to avoid the disaster at the box office. Not helped by a promotion of the film that many consider transphobic and sexist, the film remains on display for a long month to bring together only 157,315 spectators…A public failure coupled with poor critical reception, with the press divided on the “feminist” intention put forward by Audrey Dana and agreeing instead on the fact that If I were a man reviews all the commonplaces about the opposition between the sexes.
But, avoided at the cinema in 2017, If I were a man has just been added to Netflix and seems to be getting its revenge since it is currently First 2 of the 10 best Netflix films in France, behind the horror film The Liberation.
Source: Cine Serie
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