Blah, wish I could say more about this, with info about Dolan. I've seen the full movie--it is very well written, very well portrayed, avoids negative stereotypes, etc. I'm also billingual, French as my second language (for 13 years now!), so I can understand it better than most would. The downside is that it's a bit long at 2.5 hours, and is perhaps draggy for that reason, but then again, as it's said, transition is not a sprint, but a marathon. Something of a spoiler is that there is no operation, but in this sense, it has the French movie ending (plus another surprise), which I tend to rather enjoy. I also have a link to the full film, but decided against posting it, since I'm not sure it's against site rules or not (is it?).
I also have a tiny bit of connection to the film, sort of. I'm a university undergrad, and one of my two majors is French. So, I told the department head I'm TS, and she's super awesome about it. How so? Aside from immediately knowing something like that was up, she started using Jessica/she/her immediately. More importantly: she also suggested this movie for the annual French Movie Night we do-which means getting the director there, if possible (usually is), and a bunch of people see the movie (we had Tom-Boy, an FTM-based French film 2 years back; it's diverse). All because of me! And then, if that does happen...I'm debating giving them a first-person take on what it's like to be the main character in that film and how I live it.
