Bientôt Max

Bientôt Max, a short film by Virginie Berthier, (2021, 19min30).

With Peggy Lecaude.

Honorable Mention in Festival Art and Cinema of Manheim 2022.

Sélected au MICMX International Film Festival 2023 and in Bangalore Queer Film Festival 2022.

In the early 1880s, Mathilde de Morny is not yet called Max. As a young bride, she spends a weekend in Normandy while her husband accuses her of sapphic adultery. A fantasized, kaleidoscopic and anachronistic portrait that bets on the emancipatory role of fiction in the construction of identities.