Lady Oscar [videorecording / a Kitty production ; Mataichiro Yamamoto presents a Jacques Demy film ; screen adaptation by Jacques Demy and Patricia Louisiana Knop ; screenplay and dialogues, Patricia Louisiana Knop ; produced for Kitty Music Corporation ; produced by Mataichirō Yamamoto ; directed by Jacques Demy.
Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Patrick Allan, Christina Böhm, Jonas Bergström. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Based on the book Rose of Versailles by Ryoko Ikeda. Available as part of a box-set, 'Intégrale Jacques Demy', containing 12 DVDs, an audio CD and, a photo booklet. DVDs packaged as: Le courts métrages de Jacques Demy ; Iola ; Model shop ; La baie de anges ; Les parapluies de Cherbourg ; Les demoiselles de Rochefort ; Peau d'âne ; The pied piper ; Lady Oscar ; Le bel indifférent ; La naissance du jour ; Une chambre en ville ; L'événement le plus important ; Parking ; Trois places pour le 26. Special features: a look at the film by Évelyne Lever, historian ; Mathieu Demy reads from the book by Jean-Pierre Berthomé ; photo gallery.
Summary:
Based on a Japanese comic book, Oscar (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. Rather than surrender to his disappointment after she was born, Father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her in a masculine fashion. While privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she still dresses as a man and has gained an honored position as a guard to Marie Antoinette (Christina Böhm). In her younger days, Oscar was deeply infatuated with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper, and when the French Revolution begins to catch fire, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years.
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