Wild Side
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sebastien Lifshitz
Michel Olives
Stephanie Michelini
Valery Ribakov
Emylou Brunet
Liliane Nataf
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Stephanie is a transsexual prostitute who plies her trade in Parisian discos, parks and hotel rooms. She lives with James, a thirty-year-old North African who also turns tricks. Together they manage to enjoy brief moments of happiness here and there when they go out dancing or spend time with her friends, many of whom are also transsexual. For Jamel, this is a welcome alternative to his dour home life in a bleak housing project, replete with a mother who doesn't accept his sexuality. One night Stephanie meets Mikhail, a down-on-his-luck Russian immigrant living illegally in France. Soon, Mikhail falls in love with Stephanie, and she ultimately makes a surprising decision to include both partners in her life. Summoned to her childhood home in the north of France by her dying mother Liliane, Stephanie (whose birth name was Pierre) tries to provide comfort to a woman who never really accepted her son's unconventional sexuality. She is joined by Mikhail and Jamel, who together with Stephanie form a nurturing web of comfort and support. While back at her childhood home, Stephanie gradually makes up with her mother after years of distance and silence. She also visits Nicolas, a friend she hasn't seen in seventeen years. It's clear that Pierre was Nicolas's childhood paramour, even though Nicolas is now happily married with two young children. But he is delighted to be reacquainted with the former Pierre, and his company provides a relief for Stephanie from Liliane's illness. Liliane finally dies in her sleep. Stephanie, with the help of Mikhail and Jamel, buries her mother and closes up the family home, destroying all of Liliane's possessions and family mementos. En route to Paris, the three lovers are shown entwined in the same train compartment, an alternative family of sorts. But they are headed for an uncertain future, living on the margins of a society that is still not comfortable with outcasts, others and this living in-between.
Director
Sebastien Lifshitz
Cast
Michel Olives
Stephanie Michelini
Valery Ribakov
Emylou Brunet
Liliane Nataf
Josiane Stoleru
Ludovic Leplat
Pierre Nahori
Julien Fontaine
Lucas Di Girolamo
Vladislas Laskevich
Pierre-arnaud Jolard
Edouard Mikitine
Olga Abrego
Angelique Ducrocq
Benoit Verhaert
Aurélie Guichard
Fatima Adoum
Amine Adjina
Gilles Forgeas
David Lefebvre
Veronika Pereverzeva
Elias Guedon
Jean-marie Groux
Loic Pichon
Ozgur Tosunoglu
Giovanna
Antony Hegarty
Jean-claude Joerger
Perrine Stevenard
Aurelie Gilbert
Corentin Carinos
Luigi Di Girolamo
Wladimir Kotliarov
Yasmine Belmadi
Jacques Hery
Bernadette Seinvin
Hugo Sablic
Baptiste Civiero
Fabrice Rodriguez
Olivier Glebioski
Rejane Kerdaffrec
Christophe Sermet
Christophe Provost
Yann Delayaye
Sacha Yatchin
Didier Deneck
Mimouna Hedayati
Denis Prevost
Bernard Gajny
Crew
Frederic Alexandre
Laurence Aston
Jean-pierre Baronsky
Lawrence Bellanger
Pierre Benque
Thaddee Bertrand
Stephane Bouquet
Omri Ben Canaan
Joseph Claes
Chris Curling
Herve Dajon
Marie De Laubier
Yolande Decarsin
Elodie Gaiddon
Agnfs Godard
Olivier Guerbois
Antony Hegarty
Cyril Holtz
Gaetane Josse
Sebastien Lifshitz
Alison Limerick
Stephanie Mahet
Elisabeth Mehu
Véronique Melery
Anne Moralis
Jocelyn Pook
Roseanna Sacco
Gilles Sandoz
Vincent Schlumberger
Julien Selleron
Bob Sinclair
Benoit Theunissen
Philippe Thiollier
Christian Tison
Eric Van Beuren
Karen Waks
Izy Wiget
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States February 2004
Released in United States June 24, 2005
Released in United States on Video October 25, 2005
Released in United States Summer June 10, 2005
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 5-15, 2004.
Released in United States February 2004 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 5-15, 2004.)
Released in United States Summer June 10, 2005 (NY)
Released in United States June 24, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video October 25, 2005
