Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s London-set, neo-noir thriller Femme, starring George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, world premieres in the Berlinale’s Panorama section this year. Paul Verhoe…
in this revenge tale pushing the boundaries of cinematic gender stereotypes., plays successful drag queen Jules, whose life and career are destroyed by a violent homophobic attack.When his path crosses that of lead perpetrator Preston in a gay sauna, the outwardly macho young man does not recognize his victim without his wig and make-up, allowing Jules to infiltrate his life and seek revenge.
The idea of making Jules’s character a drag queen was originally introduced as a plot device so that he would be unrecognizable to his former attacker but the concept of drag became intermeshed with the storyline and characterisation. The story oscillates between the backdrop of London’s LGBTQ+ scene and the city’s wider nightlife world, with a brooding score by Adam Janota Bzowski taking inspiration from the soundtrack to Gaspar Noé’s“He has done an amazing number, creating a sound that is London, that is inside Jules’s head, that is a thriller, that is subjective, that is dark, that is sexy,” says Ping.
The BIFA success and BAFTA nomination helped reel in the backing for the feature of BBC films and Sebastien Raybauld’sThe directors decided to recast the roles for the feature, signing Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay. “We’re proud to talk about the fact we employed our cast and crew from across the spectrum of sexuality, anyone seeing our film will know it is resolutely ‘queer’. However, we do feel quite strongly that it isn’t our place to comment on the sexuality of any individual member of our team,” they say.
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