Prime Members Get Instant Access to the Latest Movies, TV Shows and Amazon Originals. Watch Binge-Worthy TV, Blockbuster Movies, and Hit Shows Included With Prime Video.
Search results
People also ask
Is Reinventing Marvin a French film?
Is Marvin Bijou a true story?
Does Isabelle Huppert play Marvin?
Who is Marvin and Abel Pinto?
Reinventing Marvin[3][4] (French: Marvin ou la belle éducation) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It screened in the Horizons section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2017, [5][6][7][8] and won the Queer Lion. [9]
The elder Marvin is played by British actor Finnegan Oldfield, who seems only to work in France. Marvin gets to co-star in his play with the great Isabelle Huppert, who has been in three of Fontaine's films. Here she plays herself, which is a strange conceit.
- (1.6K)
- Drama
- Anne Fontaine
- 2017-11-22
French auteur Anne Fontaine’s Reinventing Marvin is a story of coming-of-age and coming out in a cruelly homophobic small town in rural France.
Synopsis. Martin Clément, born Marvin Bijou, has run away. He has fled his small village in the Vosges Mountains, escaping from his family—from his father’s tyranny and his mother’s resignation; from intolerance and rejection, the bullying he suffered from being singled out as "different."
Year: 2017. Original title: Marvin ou la belle education. Synopsis: The story revolves around Martin Clément, born Marvin Bijou, who ran away from his hometown and his family. He retells his story through a stage play that proves to be a smash hit.
- (168)
- France
- Yves Angelo
- Anne Fontaine
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine.
Jul 27, 2018 · The French film, which recently screened at Outfest as the International Centerpiece, follows a young boy as he grows into a young man. He is bullied both by his classmates and his vulgar family for his suspected homosexuality.
