Wild Side
NR 2004 · 93 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama
A transgender woman returns — with her two male lovers — to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz · Written by Stéphane Bouquet
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Stéphanie Michelini Stéphanie -
Yasmine Belmadi Djamel - E Edouard Nikitine Mikhail
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Josiane Stoléru la mére - C Corentin Carinos
- P Perrine Stevenard
- B Benoît Verhaert
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Fabrice Rodriguez -
Amine Adjina -
Christophe Sermet -
ANOHNI Le chanteur du café - G Gilles Forgeas
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