Marvin Gaye: Transit Ostende

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

Two septuagenarian sisters, Esther and Elvire, filmed over six years in the land of mussels and fries and Jacques Brel. Endowed with a popular and colorful language, as well as an extreme passion for their extinct animals more than for men, they live behind closed doors that no fiction could match with as much force and emotion. Between colorful language and unique anecdotes, this documentary transports us into their lived time.

From transvestites to transformers, we will follow the trail that will lead us in different and famous Parisian music-halls, such as the mythical Alcazar of Paris, La Grande Eugène. Whether they are below or beyond their character, often these men who are looking for themselves look at life with the humor of despair. Why this need to "transform" themselves? Why is it always the men who cross-dress and not the women? Why did the public flock to these shows in the 1970s and 1980s? Interpretations of famous characters such as Diana Ross, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, the Peter Sisters, the Andrew Sisters, Zizi Jeanmaire, Judy Garland, Sarah Bernhardt, among others, contribute to making this musical document an essential testimony of this era.

Documentary on Marvin Gaye made during his stay in Belgium, Ostende

The ends of the earth where madness and absurdity rub shoulders with everyday life in a place called Marchienne-au-Pont, formerly an inland water shipping heartland where the best steel in the world was made.