Rosalie
Stéphanie Di Giusto / FR, BE, 2023 / 115 min.
Stéphanie Di Giusto documents how hoe Rosalie, a woman who suffers from hirsutism – excessive hair growth – takes no notice of the prejudices of an isolated, 19th-cenntury community. Feminist portrait of ‘the bearded woman’ who carves out a humanitarian existence for herself.
France, 1870. Rosalie is about to wed Abel, a bar owner with serious debts. Rosalie is a young woman with a secret that overshadows her life: she is extremely hairy, a condition called hirsutism. Abel views Rosalie, whose father will provide a considerable dowry, as a means of escaping his debts. He knows nothing of her condition which will become more than apparent on their wedding night. Will Abel accept her?
Preliminary film
Before Rosalie we show the short advertising film A bald mess (2') from 1949. This advertising film for a shaver comes from the Eye archive and was made in the famous Dollywood studios of Joop Geesink, where, among other things, the Loekie de Leeuw films were created.
Details
Director
Stéphanie Di Giusto
Production year
2023
Country
FR, BE
Original title
Rosalie
Length
115 min.
Language
French
Subtitles
NLD or ENG
Format
DCP
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