ME, MYSELF AND MOM /
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!

 

West Coast Premiere • Comedy • France, 2013

DCP • 2.35 • Dolby 5.1 • Color • 85 min

 

Written and Directed by: Guillaume Gallienne

Cinematography: Glynn Speeckaert

Film Editing: Valérie Deseine,

Original Score: Marie-Jeanne Séréro

Produced by: Cyril Colbeau-Justin & Jean-Baptiste Dupont (LGM Cinéma SAS), Édouard Weil (Rectangle Production)

Coproduced by: Gaumont, France 3 Cinéma, uFilms, Don’t Be Shy Productions

Cast: Guillaume Gallienne (Guillaume/Maman), André Marcon (Le père), Françoise Fabian  (Babou), Diane Kruger (Ingeborg), Reda Kateb (Karim)

International Sales: Gaumont

 

After claiming several prestigious prizes, including the Art Cinema Award at Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight, and the d’Ornano Award at the Deauville film festival, Me, Myself, and Mom moved on to conquer the critics and the French box office. Its most recent coup is the 2014 Césars, where it knocked off the competition in the Best Picture, Best First Feature, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing categories. Blending Almodovar’s affection for women with Woody Allen’s uncanny knack for snatching humor from the jaws of self-pity, French stage star Guillaume Gallienne’s crowd-pleasing feature debut is a witty and poignant personal memoir about growing up a girl. In a series of deceptively simple comic set-pieces, the wildly versatile Gallienne plays both his sexually dis-oriented young self, and the domineering, charismatic mother, who treats him like the daughter she never had. Broadly humorous and deeply moving by turns, Gallienne gives the nature/nurture debate a flamboyant spin.

 

Raised in a rigid household by patrician parents, actor/writer/director Guillaume Gallienne never felt quite at ease with himself, a condition that may have directly impacted his choice of vocations. Drawn to the theater, he made his stage debut as an actor in 1994, and soon became a Company Member of the Comédie-Française. He began to establish a reputation as a film actor, appearing in numerous films, including Sabrina (1995) and Marie Antoinette (2006). At the same time, Gallienne developed Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!, a one-man theater piece based on his upbringing. The confessional monologue proved a monstrous success, and led to this film adaptation. Gallienne may be the only filmmaker to ever direct himself in two major roles in the same film.

 

 “Only the most stern of hearts and minds could fail to be seduced by its charm and the incredible persona of Gallienne.”

- Richard Mowe EYE FOR FILM

“Sweet and sunny and shamelessly sentimental in places, Me, Myself and Mom is an attention-seeking diva of a film, albeit rich in charm.”

- Stephen Dalton HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“One of the most credible drag performances seen on the big screen.”

- Judith Prescott FRENCH CINEMA REVIEW