Portrait of a Young Woman (Portrait d'une jeune femme)
Director: Stéphane Arnoux
Country: France
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 82 mins
Original language: French (English sub-titles)
Produced by: Les films du Chat Sauvage
Synopsis:
Misungui is Marion’s pseudonym. Her identity is built on sensual or startling pictures that abound on social networks. In queer Parisian circles, she is famous for her erotic and situationist performances. In “real life”, the young libertarian feminist lives as a squatter, as she waits for the opportunity to carry out another self-managed project somewhere else. In the meanwhile, she tries to link together precarity and invention, intimacy and politics.
For those of Marion’s generation, the Crisis is all they have ever known; now, they also know war. An economic, social and humanitarian war – It is now an all-out war, which makes it all the more silent. In order to assert her identity and to shape future prospects, she created the character Misungui, whose body is the place where intimacy and politics quarrel with each other, from the virtuality of cyberspace to the heart of the city.
Awards:
2016: Best Documentary Feature Film, Manhattan Independent Film Festival
