This film is not about a young transvestite/cross dresser, neither is it about homosexuality. It's easy to get that impression from the reactions and misinterpretations of Ludovic's parents, but not if you empathise with his perspective. It's a film about a young transsexual. He doesn't just act like a girl, he feels that he IS a girl trapped in a boy's body, with such a passion that he believes he will one day become female. Dressing as a girl and playing with girls toys is an obvious extension of that, and if you truly believed you were or would become a heterosexual girl, marrying your male friend would feel perfectly natural.
The film treats the subject from a non-judgemental viewpoint, contrasting the destruction of family and work relationships against Ludovic's wide-eyed innocence about the consequences of him just being him/herself. In the process of his parents coping with their lack of understanding, they try to mould him into something more socially acceptable and "normal", like forcing a left handed person to use their right hand instead. Adult acceptance only comes in the form of treating it as childhood naïveté, and the film fails to confront the fact that this may not be "just a phase". Given this, the ending is a little weak, abrupt, and too open-ended, but overall it's a tender, emotive, and enjoyable film.
The film treats the subject from a non-judgemental viewpoint, contrasting the destruction of family and work relationships against Ludovic's wide-eyed innocence about the consequences of him just being him/herself. In the process of his parents coping with their lack of understanding, they try to mould him into something more socially acceptable and "normal", like forcing a left handed person to use their right hand instead. Adult acceptance only comes in the form of treating it as childhood naïveté, and the film fails to confront the fact that this may not be "just a phase". Given this, the ending is a little weak, abrupt, and too open-ended, but overall it's a tender, emotive, and enjoyable film.