The Canadian Bilal Baig signs a comedy that fades all the traps of the “dramedic” inclusive.
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An electric guitar tears at night. Sabi goes back his lovers in the restaurant to celebrate his birthday. Disappointed by the avalanche of gifts and attentions, this one murdered by a sentence: “You do not see me.” This question of the eye that carries in it that of acceptance is at the heart of fate of, Canadian comedy with melancholy accents that left a gentle impression for Mania series festival-goers, who came to Lille discover the selection Panorama International, in August.
The Jury of the Festival has chosen to reward another series with the main character a young artist Queer. It is not unfair: realized by little fresh, the Colombian Vida de Colores surely needed the trophy that comes from, broadcast on the Canadian CBC channel.
Finding love
Especially as to evoke the daily life of his transgender hero, nanny the day and waiter at night, fate of has put up his pop clothes. Branchouille Music, Curved Costumes and Standing In Toronto’s Bobo Quarters, Bilal Baig Series is aimed at a Millennial public. Which does not mean that it will not seduce beyond.
COCREATOR AND COSCENARIST OF SORT OF WITH FAB FILIPPO, BILAL BAIG CAMPES A young summed transgender to enter adulthood. It means finding the courage to reveal his identity than to his parents, Muslims of Pakistani origin. It also involves leaving his two jobs for perhaps attempting his luck in Berlin with his best friend, a feminist artist little on the concessions (Amanda Cordner, Great). It’s also about finding love, the truth, after breaking up with Lewis, a straight hetero on the land of sexual fluidity.
These plans on the comet are thwarted by the occurrence of a bike accident, which plunges into the coma the mother of the children in which Sabi deals and interrupts his flight. The situation is not made more comfortable by the hostility of the Father of Violet and Henry, embarrassed as this nanny, which is first at first presented as a man, now carries earrings, long hair and bariolized skirts. “You are so authentic (…), I’m glad the children have been exposed to you,” he assists him with the first episode, in such a stupid and violent formulation. “Sabi, you see everyone,” says Bessy, the mother of the children, a little later, as if to tell him that the only person he does not see enough, it’s itself.
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