- A failed student hopes to find a new path by joining a midwifery service.
- "Sage-homme" by Jennifer Devoldère was one of the beautiful surprises of the Festival de l'Alpe d'Huez.
- Melvin Boomer in the title role and Karin Viard as an experienced woman who teaches her the trade gives the viewer many emotions.
With a young man becoming a midwife, gender stereotypes may well be shattered. Laughter, because it is indeed a comedy. As its title suggests, Midman by Jennifer Devoldere, discovered at the Festival de l'Alpe d'Huez, goes off the beaten track to tell how a young man who failed the entrance exam in medicine will enter the school of midwives. In the title role, Melvin Boomer, discovered with the series Le Monde de demain, is taught the trade by Karin Viard while trying to hide from his entourage that he evolves in this almost exclusively female environment.
"He has to fight against ready-made ideas, his masculine modesty and the mystery that a woman represents for a man," Karin Viard told 20 Minutes. She plays an energetic and competent heroine whom she defines as "feminist without giving lessons". The meeting between this experienced woman and this kid who ends up enjoying a profession he despised is rich in varied emotions.
This subtle comedy reveals a world unknown through the eyes of endearing characters that the director makes evolve naturally between professional and personal environments. The dynamism of the actors is not for nothing in the charm that emerges from Sage-homme. "I loved being a midwife for fakes, as if I was playing the merchant," says Karin Viard. She transmits her enthusiasm to her young student as well as to the spectator.
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