Chouchou (2003)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gad Elmaleh	...	Choukri, alias Chouchou
	Alain Chabat	...	Stanislas de la Tour-Maubourg
	Claude Brasseur	...	Père Léon
	Roschdy Zem	...	Frère Jean
	Catherine Frot	...	Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
	Julien Courbey	...	Yekea
	Arié Elmaleh	...	Vanessa
	Yacine Mesbah	...	Djamila
	Micheline Presle	...	La mère de Stanislas
	Jacques Sereys	...	Le père de Stanislas
	Michaël Youn	...	Le transformiste brésilien
	Stéphane Boucher	...	L'inspecteur Grégoire
	Olivia Dessolin	...	L'apparition
	Anne Marivin	...	La vendeuse supermarché
	Jean-Paul Comart	...	Le commissaire Molino

Storyline

Chouchou has just arrived in Paris from his home in North Africa. He is scatty and unworldly, and tries to get a bed for the night by spinning an implausible line about being a refugee from the Chilean dictator Pinochet. He is fortunate, because a kindly priest (Father Leon) in a working class suburb has some sympathy for him, and takes him in for a few nights. Father Leon also gets him a job with a lady psychoanalyst, Dr Milovavich, and the job is as receptionist and cleaner. Chouchou does the cleaning in a woman's dustcoat and when Dr Milovavich asks him what he would most like in the world, he replies that he would love to be a woman from head to toe. Dr M. is unabashed by this revelation, and tells him that from tomorrow he can come to work as a woman, Mlle Chouchou. He takes her at her word, and is startlingly convincing the next day, with good female body language, although let down by a marked dark beard shadow... Written by Hazel Freeman  

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