Clémentine Delait, better known as La Femme à Barbe, became an international celebrity thanks to her famous hairiness during the Belle Epoque.
The incredible destiny of this woman, born in a small village in the Vosges, allows us today to question the issue of women's emancipation and that of gender.
Thanks to her Memoirs, rediscovered a few years ago, the director re-enacts her café of the time and attempts, with the support of a few women scientists, to answer this question: have we become more open to the difference of the Other a century later?
Hélène Michel-Béchet
After studying history and archaeology, Hélène worked on various excavation sites in Greece, Germany and Versailles. She had the opportunity to make a first documentary for the French School of Athens on an excavation site in 2007.
She then continued with film studies at ESEC and Angoulême and began to make various institutional or commissioned films.
In 2014, she made "Seeing Further" on a class of school dropouts, "The Magician of Dachau" in 2015 and "A Different Hair" based on the story of the bearded woman in 2018.
Avec
Olivier Richaume
image : Tristan Bordmann
image : Pascale Thine
son : Grégory Pernet
son : François Devaux
montage : Elodie Olivieri
mixage. : Lionel Thiriet
Une coproduction Sancho & Co, France 3 Grand Est
avec le soutien
du CNC, de la Procirep et de l'Angoa, des Régions Normandie et Grand Est et de Strasbourg Eurométropole.