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Director's Statement
When Ludovic says, "I'm a boy now but one day I’ll be a girl", it makes perfect sense to him. It's like saying, "One day I’ll be grown up." It's bound to happen.
Children live in a world of possibilities, a poetic, open world where the threshold between dreams and reality barely exists. Nothing is definite. Nothing is final.
An adult's vision, on the other hand, is already dominated by appearances, social codes and ideas about what is normal and what isn't. For adults, it's always blue for a boy and pink for a girl.
The movies often treat the issue of transvestism and sexual identity as comedy material. Here, the child's innocence and his amazing certainty make his questions touch our hearts and allow us to understand them.
For the parents, it takes real courage to accept their child's difference because what terrifies them most is the prospect of being different themselves, of being seen differently by other people. I always feel neighbours are like so many mirrors: when one of them reflects a distorting picture, you do your utmost to throw it out.
I wanted to tell the story of this courage, this process of learning to accept. All through the making of the film, I never stopped telling myself that if it happened to me, I wouldn't know how to react.