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MARINETTE

By Virginie VERRIER

Sport - Completed 2022

An uncompromising ode to freedom, the fight of one of the world's greatest stars of football, Marinette Pichon, to spread awarness on women's rights in sport.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Sport, LGBT, Biography
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Virginie VERRIER
- Cast
- Garance MARILLER , Emilie DEQUENNE, Alban LENOIR, Fred TESTOT, Sylvie TESTUD
- Producer(s)
- Virginie VERRIER (Vigo Films), Viellevoye VIELLEVOYE (BESIDE PRODUCTIONS), Cécile CÉCILE NÉGRIER (FRANCE 3 CINEMA)
- Synopsis
- Marinette Pichon is one of the world’s greatest stars of football, having held for almost two decades the record for the number of goals and caps for the French team (men/women combined), before becoming a FIFA Legend by being the first French player to have a career in the US.
  Pioneer of French women’s soccer, the film follows her fight to spread awareness on women’s rights in sport. A path full of pitfalls, from a childhood ravaged by an alcoholic and violent
  father to the heavy burden of coming out in an era where there is no such thing as LGBTQ+ rights.
  Her success in sport will fuel her desire to make a difference in the recognition of French women’s soccer, homosexuality, and equal opportunity.
  It is the story of a woman’s life, a fighter, an uncompromising ode to freedom, to surpassing oneself.