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Funny Boy (1987)
Director: Christian Le Hémonet
Cast: Gérard Lecaillon, Valérie Mairesse, Anaïs Jeanneret, Sacha Briquet
4.6Runtime90 min
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Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.
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Fans of unique, offbeat films will appreciate the eccentric charm of 1987's Funny Boy, directed by Christian Le Hémonet. Starring Gérard Lecaillon, the film follows a young man who leaves his provincial background to perform as a transvestite singer in a Paris cabaret, offering a quirky, genre-blending exploration of self-discovery and identity.
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Funny Boy is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel of the same name, the film centres on the coming of age of Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young Tamil boy in Sri Lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese people before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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