Algeria in the 1930s: Marie-Pierre Pruvot is assigned a different name and a male gender at birth. Even in her childhood, she notices that she prefers to wear dresses rather than pants. At the age of 17, her life takes a major turn when she has an epiphany while watching a famous drag show on tour: le Carrousel de Paris. She moved to Paris, joined the troupe, became BAMBI and within a few years established herself as a legendary figure of the Parisian cabaret scenes of the 50s and 60s. But her extraordinary journey didn't stop there. At 30, Marie-Pierre decided to give up performing so that she could graduate at the famous Parisian university Sorbonne and became a teacher and writer. By collecting the story of one of the first transgender women, Sebastien Lifshitz continues his work initiated with Wild Side and Little Girl and portraits a forceful personality. "Bambi is a timeless portrait as much as an invigorating ode to the love of life around the prodigious strength of being oneself." (blogs.mediapart)
Biography, Queer
1h 23min
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The new Director's cut of Sébastien Lifshitz's intimate and portrait of one of the first French trans woman, Marie-Pierre Pruvot, called BAMBI.
Algeria in the 1930s: Marie-Pierre Pruvot is assigned a different name and a male gender at birth. Even in her childhood, she notices that she prefers to wear dresses rather than pants. At the age of 17, her life takes a major turn when she has an epiphany while watching a famous drag show on tour: le Carrousel de Paris. She moved to Paris, joined the troupe, became BAMBI and within a few years established herself as a legendary figure of the Parisian cabaret scenes of the 50s and 60s.
But her extraordinary journey didn't stop there. At 30, Marie-Pierre decided to give up performing so that she could graduate at the famous Parisian university Sorbonne and became a teacher and writer.
By collecting the story of one of the first transgender women, Sebastien Lifshitz continues his work initiated with Wild Side and Little Girl and portraits a forceful personality.
"Bambi is a timeless portrait as much as an invigorating ode to the love of life around the prodigious strength of being oneself." (blogs.mediapart)