Guillaume Gallienne is little known outside his native France, but pundits inside the Japanese movie industry are predicting that in a year or two, Gallienne will be huge. In 2015, you could be saying to your friends: "Ah yes, Gallienne. Of course, I've followed his work for ages."
With that in mind, "Me, Myself and Mum" is a good occasion to get acquainted. The story of a French teenager with major gender issues, the film features Gallienne playing himself as a teen, while also playing his mother and directing the whole thing at the same time. Not only is this guy a total control freak, he looks splendid in drag.
Gallienne hails from the Comedie-Francaise theater in Paris and a deep love for theater courses through his veins. He even performed as a noh actor (in a documentary about Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit") in 2006 and said in an interview with The Japan Times: "I love the way Japanese traditional art approaches gender issues — they recognize that it shouldn't be an issue!"
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