Benjamin is a nurse, Aude is a dance teacher, six years of love have united them since their encounter in a club, when Benjamin was still called Sarah. Six years of struggle before Benjamin finally obtained his legal identity of male, towards which he is progressively transforming his body. But their desire for a child shakes up the balance of their realtionship. They are now stepping into totally unknown territory, because their only solution for having a child is that Benjamin carry the baby. "A journey that is very affecting and which Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar retraces with a precise and attentive eye, alternately tugging on and letting go of our heartstrings and without foregoing a few moments of lyricism and harmony in the (extra) ordinary quest of these two characters, flag-bearers of the fluidity of our times." (Cineuropa)
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Gender, identity and truth: A GOOD MAN explores the ultimate symbol of femininity and the taboo of male pregnancy.
Benjamin is a nurse, Aude is a dance teacher, six years of love have united them since their encounter in a club, when Benjamin was still called Sarah.
Six years of struggle before Benjamin finally obtained his legal identity of male, towards which he is progressively transforming his body. But their desire for a child shakes up the balance of their realtionship. They are now stepping into totally unknown territory, because their only solution for having a child is that Benjamin carry the baby.
"A journey that is very affecting and which Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar retraces with a precise and attentive eye, alternately tugging on and letting go of our heartstrings and without foregoing a few moments of lyricism and harmony in the (extra) ordinary quest of these two characters, flag-bearers of the fluidity of our times." (Cineuropa)