Bambi (2013)

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Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew herself to be. A Cabaret Carrousel de Paris performance in Algiers in the 1950s proved to be all the encouragement she needed to emigrate to the French capital, assume the stage name of ‘Bambi’ and lead the life she longed for on the music-hall stages.

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miguelreina

[Zinegoak] Constructed as an interview with one of the popular transvestites of Le Carrousel de Paris in the fifties, this documentary follows "Les invisibles" (2012) as a kind of separate chapter. Marie-Pierre Pruvot's journey to her memories focuses on the discovery of transvestism, in a moment of courage. "I never wanted to provoke, I just wanted to be myself." It is an electrifying manifesto about a constant process of transformation.

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