Like Ludovic, I marvel at the wonderful, magical mystery that is life. All these years later, Ma Vie en Rose remains a rapturous miracle.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 30, 2023

Has the good sense not to preach or treat its characters with frivolity. It is in the truest sense of the word a family film.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 19, 2023

This is the sort of sweet, kind-hearted comedy Hollywood seems less and less capable of.

| Original Score: A | Sep 1, 2022

The film's redemptive ending leaves open the possibility of growth and healing in all links of the community chain. If you must relive the agony of a misfit childhood, Ma Vie en Rose is a compassionate way to go.

| Apr 19, 2022

Credit should go foremost to du Fresne, who is great as Ludovic. It's pretty astounding how capable he is at conveying Ludovic's feelings, particularly when she's swallowing others' transphobia.

| Jan 7, 2021

Queer movies can run adjacent to or parallel to other Queer lives, but it's rare that a movie will ever intersect with my life or even contain numerous scenes that I have personally lived. Ma Vie En Rose does that.

| Sep 15, 2019

About the unimaginative struggle to maintain conventional respectability, and the transgender child who is having none of it...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2014

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Director Alain Berliner and screenwriter Chris vender Stappen have created one of the most authentic, touching households ever put on film.

| Jul 11, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 7, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

This bright and touching drama celebrates diversity as one of the enchantments of life.

| Mar 1, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000