TonActor Mya Bollaers brought personal peace and confidence to Belgian film producer Laurent Micheli’s flawed road film. Bollaers worked very well with co-star Benoît Magimel, and together they did their best to raise the bar for this well-meaning but largely unsatisfactory work.
Bollaers plays Lola, a young transgender woman who was kicked out of her house by her angry father Philippe (Magimel) and now lives in a foster home while preparing for sex reassignment surgery. But Lola’s mother, who had always accepted her identity, passed away. Now a series of somewhat artificial incidents means that Philip and Lola have to take a car to her childhood home by the sea and Isaac the ashes-this is a long-standing metaphor. . Philip was grumpy and transgender, he got Lola’s gender wrong and used her old name Lionel. However, there is no prize for guessing whether they gradually reach an agreement.
There are a lot of clichés here: For a moment, Lola really put his hands out of the car from the passenger seat, just like in the TV commercial, enjoying the impact and freedom of the air.She even stole something from a gas station convenience store and was ordered to pay by Philippe-this narrative approach is very similar to the sweet words of an Oscar-winning road movie Green Paper.
There are some strenuous flashbacks that show Lola’s unpleasant memories of her childhood seaside vacation. Philip’s car itself plays a strange role: it suddenly caught fire while being left unattended for a period of time. The reason is not entirely clear, except that it took Some paranoid police brought into the picture, and Philip protected Lola from his ugly abuse.
This is a movie that has never completely deviated from the course: but Bollaers and Magimel showed their talents.
