History Film / MaVieEnRose

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[FromBadToWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, she's actually convinced she's really a girl. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, she figures it all out: when God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of her conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while she's developing a sort-of crush on her new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

* TransTribulations: Ludovic is misunderstood at every turn, tries to butch it up, fails, feels miserable, and attempts suicide. She gets better though.

* AbusiveParents: Ludovic's parents both yell and even hit her over her wearing dresses, due to their distress over Ludovic being gender nonconforming (at the very least). They eventually relent, regretting this as they see how much Ludovic is hurt by their refusal to let her express herself this way.

* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: On the advice of his boss, Ludo's dad decides to spend more time with her to get her to be more masculine, and enrolls her in football (soccer), encouraging him from the sidelines. Ludo is hopeless at the sport. After the game, the unbearably cruel locker-room taunting and gang-bullying will [[TruthInTelevision feel familiar]] to LGBT members of the audience. Later, however, they start dancing together.

* TransNature: Ludovic clearly feels transgender at seven. She may or may not grow up still feeling that way. Chris may be transgender as well.

* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler:Ludovic]] gets one near the end of the movie.
* YouthfulFreckles: Chris is freckle-faced.

* DoubleStandard: In-universe one demonstrated in full at the end.

* PimpedOutDress: Ludo loves them.

* {{Tomboy}}: Chris. Either that or he is a trans boy.

* AdultFear: Ludo vanishes twice as a result of her family bullying her or letting her get hurt. Both times, her parents are frantic.
** The first time, she hides in the freezer and turns blue from the cold. They frantically revive her, fearing he was trying to kill herself.
** The second time is in the climax, after the birthday party. Ludo runs away just as Mom realizes she was wrong to beat her up -- Chris made her wear his birthday dress -- and she checks the freezer again. She's not there, and it's unclear where she ran off to, but when she catches up, she tells her she won't be a bother to her anymore.

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[FromBadToWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, she's actually convinced she's really a girl. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, she figures it all out: when God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of her conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while she's developing a sort-of crush on his new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[FromBadToWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, she's actually convinced he's really a girl. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, she figures it all out: when God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of her conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while she's developing a sort-of crush on his new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[FromBadToWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, she's [[{{Transgender}} actually convinced he's really a girl]]. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, she figures it all out: when God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of her conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while she's developing a sort-of crush on his new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

* {{Transgender}}: Ludovic clearly feels transgender at seven. She may or may not grow up still feeling that way. Chris may be transgender as well.

* [[MommasBoy Momma's Girl]]: Ludovic has a good relationship with her dad but seems especially close to her mother, also to her grandmother and older sister. This, along with her parents' wish for a girl as their last child, is a possible explanation for his attraction to all things feminine. However as a sort of lynch-mob mentality develops among their neighbors--[[MamaBear threatening the family's livelihood]]--Mom can no longer tolerate Ludovic's gender nonconformity. She begins unpredictably lashing out, [[BerserkButton blaming (with shocking frankness)]] her child for their changing fortunes. It gets to the point that Ludovic runs away in the climax, and Mom goes MyGodWhatHaveIDone when she says she'll go away and never be a bother to her anymore.

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[FromBadToWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, he's [[{{Transgender}} actually convinced he's really a girl]]. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, he figures it all out: when God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of his conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while he's developing a sort-of crush on his new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

* AdultFear: Ludo vanishes twice as a result of his family bullying him or letting him get hurt. Both times, his parents are frantic.
** The first time, he hides in the freezer and turns blue from the cold. They frantically revive him, fearing he was trying to kill himself.
** The second time is in the climax, after the birthday party. Ludo runs away just as Mom realizes she was wrong to beat him up -- Chris made him wear her birthday dress -- and she checks the freezer again. He's not there, and it's unclear where he ran off to, but when she catches up, he tells her he won't be a bother to her anymore.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: On the advice of his boss, Ludo's dad decides to spend more time with his son to get him to be more masculine, and enrolls him in football (soccer), encouraging him from the sidelines. Ludo is hopeless at the sport. After the game, the unbearably cruel locker-room taunting and gang-bullying will [[TruthInTelevision feel familiar]] to LGBT members of the audience. Later, however, they start dancing together.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Ludovic may or may not grow up to be gay. His (or her) parents are certainly worried he will, though.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's hard to tell whether Ludo is transgender or just gender variant, but the film seems to support the former more.
* BittersweetEnding: The new neighborhood accepts Ludo for who he is, with Chris saying she's to blame for making him wear a dress on her birthday. Mom also admits she treated her son wrong and says she'll accept him the way he is. Even so, it's going to take a while for them to mend their relationship, and Ludovic is still visibly traumatized from how he's been treated.
* BratsWithSlingshots: Chris has one and shoots Ludo with it as a way of saying hi. Ludo isn't amused.
* CoolBigSis: Ludovic's sister is the only one of his immediate family members apart from Granny that is supportive of him, despite his trans identity. She explains to him what periods are and why boys can't have it when he asks about her cramps. When she finds out her little brothers let Ludo get beaten up and blame each other, she yells at them both for not protecting him and saying they are both entitled brats.

* DrivenToSuicide: Ludo tries to freeze himself when he's beaten up in the locker room. Fortunately, his family finds him in time.
* DysfunctionalFamily: They're a harmonious and loving bunch at the beginning, but Ludovic's gender troubles cause all kinds of discord, to the point that [[spoiler: he says he wants to live with his grandmother instead of his parents and his parents let him and consider leaving him with her when they move.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Ludovic loves and wants to be like Pam, a Barbie-like doll and children's TV character. She tends to trail sparkles in the air around her. On one occasion Ludo imagines her blowing sparkly air that ties up two interfering mothers and takes Ludo, in a pink dress, and Jerome flying through the air with her.

* GiantPoofySleeves: Zoe's princess dress which Ludovic makes a grand entrance wearing.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: At the end of the film, Ludovic meets a boy named Chris -- short hair, shorts and T-shirt, catapult -- who turns out to be a girl named Christine. [[spoiler: During Chris's tenth birthday party she (or he, since he may be trans) makes Ludo swap costumes with her so that Chris is wearing the musketeer outfit and Ludovic the princess dress.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the end, Mom sees Ludovic walking into a billboard with Pam, saying he will no longer be a bother to his parents and go away forever. She tries to chase after them, only to fall into the billboard. We then cut to her reviving on the couch, where it's revealed that she fainted. Even though the others assume she is hallucinating when she asks if her son was going to run away with a doll, Ludovic shakes his head, making it unclear if they shared his ImagineSpot or reality blurred. Either way, someone found him and got him back to the party.
* MommasBoy: Ludovic has a good relationship with his dad but seems especially close to his mother, also to his grandmother and older sister. This, along with his parents' wish for a girl as their last child, is a possible explanation for his attraction to all things feminine. However as a sort of lynch-mob mentality develops among their neighbors--[[MamaBear threatening the family's livelihood]]--Mom can no longer tolerate Ludovic's gender nonconformity. She begins unpredictably lashing out, [[BerserkButton blaming (with shocking frankness)]] her child for their changing fortunes. It gets to the point that Ludovic runs away in the climax, and Mom goes MyGodWhatHaveIDone when he says he'll go away and never be a bother to her anymore.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mom has this reaction when she finds out Chris made Ludo wear a dress and she had just beaten him up in front of the parents, who pull her away and tell her off for being abusive. Ludo then vanishes, and Mom checks the freezer again, desperately trying to make up her past behavior to him. It's unclear if he really did enter a billboard with Pam, or she fainted while searching for him.
* OneOfTheBoys: We don't see much of Chris but as far as we can tell she/he pals around largely with boys.

* {{Tomboy}}: Chris. Either that or she/he is a transboy.

* {{Transgender}}: Ludovic clearly feels transgender at seven. He/she may or may not grow up still feeling that way. Chris may be transgender as well.

** Ludo's obsession with a Barbie-like character and love of pink dresses are realistic traits for a young transgirl or gender variant boy.

** One might easily fail to grasp the full implications of [[InterruptedSuicide Ludovic's intent, after he's discovered in the giant freezer]] in the carport (it wasn't just a hiding place). More recent first-time viewers of the DVD are more likely to "get it," assuming they've followed the news in the past couple of years.

* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: On the advice of his boss, Ludo's dad decides to spend more time with his son to get him to be more masculine, and enrolls him in football (soccer), encouraging him from the sidelines. Ludo is hopeless at the sport. After the game, the unbearably cruel locker-room taunting and gang-bullying will [[TruthInTelevision feel familiar]] to LGBT members of the audience.

* MommasBoy: Ludovic has a good relationship with his dad but seems especially close to his mother, also to his grandmother and older sister. This, along with his parents' wish for a girl as their last child, is a possible explanation for his attraction to all things feminine. However as a sort of lynch-mob mentality develops among their neighbors--[[MamaBear threatening the family's livelihood]]--Mom can no longer tolerate Ludovic's gender nonconformity. She begins unpredictably lashing out, [[BerserkButton blaming (with shocking frankness)]] her child for their changing fortunes.

* YouthfulFreckles: Chris is freckle-faced.

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[FromBadToWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, he's [[{{Transgender}} actually convinced he's really a girl]]. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, he figures it all out: When God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of his conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while he's developing a sort-of crush on his new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

* AmbiguousGender: It's hard to tell whether Ludo is transgender or just gender-variant, but the film seems to support the former more.

** Ludo's obsession with a Barbie-like character and love of pink dresses are realistic traits for a young transgirl or gender-variant boy.

** One might easily fail to grasp the full implications of [[InterruptedSuicide Ludovic's intent, after he's discovered in the giant freezer]] in the carport. (It wasn't just a hiding place.) More-recent first-time viewers of the DVD are more likely to "get it," assuming they've followed the news in the past couple of years.

* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: On the advice of his boss, Ludo's dad decides to spend more time with his son to get him to be more masculine, and enrolls him in football (soccer), encouraging him from the sidelines. Ludo is hopeless at the sport.
** After the game, the unbearably cruel locker-room taunting and gang-bullying will [[TruthInTelevision feel familiar]] to LGBT members of the audience.

** Out-of-universe one in the form of the film's R-rating.

* MommasBoy: Ludovic has a good relationship with his dad but seems especially close to his mother, also to his grandmother and older sister. This, along with his parents' wish for a girl as their last child, is a possible explanation for his attraction to all things feminine.
** However as a sort of lynch-mob mentality develops among their neighbors--[[MamaBear threatening the family's livelihood]]--Mom can no longer tolerate Ludovic's gender nonconformity. She begins unpredictably lashing out, [[BerserkButton blaming (with shocking frankness)]] her child for their changing fortunes.

* {{Transsexual}}: Ludovic clearly feels transgender at seven. He/she may or may not grow up still feeling that way. Chris may be transgender as well.
* TruthInTelevision: Ludo's obsession with a Barbie-like character and love of pink dresses are realistic traits for a young transgirl or gender-variant boy.

** AmbiguousGender: It's hard to tell whether Ludo is transgender or just gender-variant, but the film seems to support the former more.

* DawsonCasting: 12-year-old Georges Du Fresne as 7-year-old Ludovic Fabre.

* YouthfulFreckles: Chris is freckle-faced.

Comparable to the later ''Film/{{Tomboy}}''.

* {{Transsexual}}: Ludovic clearly feels transgendered at seven. He/she may or may not grow up still feeling that way. Chris may be transgendered as well.

...Yeah. Life for them becomes [[ItGotWorse more difficult]] after that. See, Ludovic is not just a WholesomeCrossdresser, he's [[{{Transgender}} actually convinced he's really a girl]]. Even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, he figures it all out: When God was giving out all the chromosomes on the date of his conception, he accidentally lost a set of X chromosomes in the trash, and replaced them with a set of Y chromosomes. And while he's developing a sort-of crush on his new friend Jerome, the rest of the town is getting bent out of shape over whether or not they should let their kids hang around with a boy who habitually dresses in girl's clothes.

** AmbiguousGender: It's hard to tell whether Ludo is transgendered or just gender-variant, but the film seems to support the former more.