MA VIE EN ROSE (1997) is a tender, quietly radical coming-of-age film about Ludovic, a transfeminine child whose sense of self collides with the rigid gender norms of her suburban community. Ludovic expresses herself as a girl, imagines herself as a girl, and understands herself as a girl. The film treats these truths not as spectacle or provocation, but as something innate, joyful, and deeply imaginative. Ludovic’s world blooms in candy-colored fantasy sequences drenched in pinks and adorned in