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Romy & Laure and the Mystery of the Enchanted Plug

  • France
  • 2020
  • fr
  • en
  • 11'

This cine-tale about sex is falsely naive banter that shows everything, with the photographs of Romy Alizée. The lightness of tone serves as a decoy to better dynamite, jigsaw-style, the last clichés on female sexuality. The poster on the wall of a film by Catherine Breillat, A Real Young Girl, is a reference: Romy & Laure's "real" young girls have sex organs and do what they want with them.

Romy & Laure and the Mystery of the Enchanted Plug
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Synopsis

This cine-tale about sex is falsely naive banter that shows everything, with the photographs of Romy Alizée. The lightness of tone serves as a decoy to better dynamite, jigsaw-style, the last clichés on female sexuality. The poster on the wall of a film by Catherine Breillat, A Real Young Girl, is a reference: Romy & Laure's "real" young girls have sex organs and do what they want with them.

What you will find in this film

A photographic tale • A narration in images • A nod to the photo-novel • Erotic photographs • A feminine reappropriation of the erotic codes • A crazy tale

Keywords

Artist and models Black & White Erotic photography Women photographers Self-portrait
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The authors/artists

Laure Giappiconi
Film Director
Romy Alizée
Film Director

Further exploration

Bibliography

Resources

Cannon fodder: Photography, discourse, feminism
Abigail Salomon Godeau, published by Editions Textuel, Paris, 2016

Masculinities: liberation through photography
Collective, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2020

My Life as a Man
Carmen Winant, Horse Think Press, USA, 2015

Photography : a feminist history
Anthology, 256 pages, pub. Tate, London, 2021

Photo-novel
Collective, Mucem, Marseille (F) 2017

FemmesPHOTOgraphes magazine, No.11
Collective, periodical, pub. FemmesPHOTOgraphes, Bagnolet

https://www.romyalizee.fr

http://www.femmesphotographes.eu