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Join Telegram ChannelAlexis Langlois' exciting first feature film tells the story of the devastating passion of a popstar and a rocker against a backdrop of 2000s nostalgia.
If John Waters and Britney Spears had a child, her name would be Alexis Langlois. And his manifesto, Drama Queens. Queer, esthete and schoolboy, the young director already announced color in Dorothy's Demonsa hallucinatory short film about an apprentice filmmaker who is a fan of botoxed biker girls. Presented during Critics' Week, his first feature foreshadows what the French cinema of tomorrow could be, a scene taken by storm by a slew of extraordinary and proud directors and directors. Out of the norm, but not snobbish, because pop culture, Drama Queens loves it, she digests it and resurrects it.
So, it all begins with the audition of a televised singing competition, an ersatz of The New Starwhen the sweet Mimi Madamour crosses paths with Billie Kohler. The latter swears by muscle and punk while Mimi is on the verge of becoming the new Lorie. Shooting stars of the star system, they will live an incandescent love story over several decades, narrated by the blogger Steevyshady.
The collision between their two worlds, effectively set to music by Yelle and Rebeka Warrior, is only illusory, Drama Queens being, above all, a unifying gesture between the mainstream and the underground, which encourages starlets and revolutionaries to unite against the dictatorship of Good Taste, patriarchy, and those who would like to erase marginal identities. We come out humming, with rhinestones in our eyes.
By Alexis Langlois. With Louiza Aura, Gio Ventura, Bilal Hassani… Duration 1h55. Released November 27, 2024