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MARINETTE
Director—Virginie Verrier
Feature, FRA 2023—93min—18+
French original version with German subtitles
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Gripping drama about a lesbian worldclass soccer player.
Marinette discovers her passion for soccer as a child. However, in the small French town of Bar-sur- Aube in the 80s and 90s, only boys are allowed to play football. As Marinette‘s talent does not go unnoticed, she initially plays on a boys‘ team, which her alcoholic, violent father (Alban Lenoir)
strongly disapproves of. But Marinette (Garance Marillier) stays determined: she wants to become a professional soccer player. The athlete fights her way through numerous dramatic and challenging experiences, becoming the first French woman to sign with a leading U.S. professional team. She comes out as gay and advocates for women‘s rights in professional soccer, as well as for herself and her mother, making sporting history in the process.
This biopic of French international Marinette Pichon is moving in both the literal and figurative sense. Marinette is the first sports biopic to be directed by a woman (Virginie Verrier).
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