Dressed for Pleasure
FIC | 00:16 | SWITZERLAND
DIRECTOR MARIE DE MARICOURT | SCREENPLAY MARIE DE MARICOURT
A COPRODUCTION HEAD – GENEVA
Sarah, a disabled girl aged about twenty, lives with her parents. She is increasingly subject to many fantasies and sees her sexuality taking up more and more of her attention. The arrival in the house of a new cleaner, Victoria, a transsexual woman, will upset the family balance.
Biography
Marie de Maricourt, Director
Born in Paris in 1987, Marie de Maricourt studied film editing. She devoted several years to founding and developing a cultural promotion entity before joining the film department of the Geneva School of Art and Design. Having gained her diploma in June 2017, Marie de Maricourt won the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation excellence prize.
Filmography
Lick Us, Meow, Meow!, fiction, 2015
E comme Enfer, documentary, 2014
Les Pleureuses, documentary, 2014
Ivry, les étoiles, documentary, 2013
Festivals
2017: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland)
2018: Berlinale – Generation14+ (Germany)
2018: Creteil International Festival of Women’s Films (France)
2018: Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine)
2018: Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival (Germany)
2018: Zlìn International Film Festival (Czech Republic)
2018: Asolo Art Film Festival (Italy)
2018: Festival du Film de Fesses (France)
2018: Rooftop Film Festival, New York (USA)
2018: Palm Springs International Short Festival (USA)
2018: Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK)
2018: Outfest Los Angeles (USA)
2018: Queerlisboa (Portugal)
2018: Lustreifen Basel (Switzerland)
2018: Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay FF (Hong Kong)
2018: Adelaide Film Festival (Australia)
2018: NewFest New York (USA)
2018: Seattle Queer Film Festival (USA)
2018: interFilm Berlin (Germany)
2018: Queersicht Berne (Switzerland)
2018: Mix Brasil Festival of Diversity (Brasil)
2018: Pride Pictures Queer Film Festival Karlsruhe (Germany)
2018: Queerfilm Festival Bremen (Germany)
2018: Pink Screens Brussels (Belgium)
2018: QueerFilmFest Rostock (Germany)
2018: Belgrade Festival of Student Film (Serbia)
2019: London Short Film Festival (UK)
2019: Short Waves Festival (Poland)
2019: La Fête du Slip Lausanne (Switzerland)
2019: BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (UK)
2019: Newport Beach Film Festival (USA)
2019: Tout Court Film Festival Bologna (Italia)
2019: Scottish Queer International Film Festival (Scotland)
2019: Bristol Pride Film Festival (UK)
2019: Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Canada)
2019: Stockholm Cinema Queer (Sweden)
2019: Vinokino Finnish LGBT+ Film Festival (Finland)
Awards
2018: Special Mention of the Youth Jury | Berlinale
2018: Special Mention of the International Jury | Outfest LA
2018: Special Mention of the Jury | interFilm Berlin
Casting
Angélique Bridoux
Naelle Dariya
Nathalie Cuenet
Vincent Chaumont
Raphaël Tschudi
Lionel Mur
Svetlana Semusheva
Raya Martini
Stéphane Guérin
Clément Langlais
Written & directed by
Marie de Maricourt
DOP
Fanny Mazoyer
Editing
Gabriel Gonzalez
Sound
Thomas Goguelin
Sound Mix
Philippe Ciompi
Costumes
Alexis Langlois
Color Grading
Fanny Mazoyer
Produced by
GoldenEggProduction | Gabriela Bussmann
In coproduction with
HEAD – Geneva
RTS – Radio Télévision Suisse