Zoë la boxeuse (1992, France)

Zoë (Ursula Deuker) is a young woman who takes up boxing in the seedy parts of Pigalle, in Paris. She is encouraged by a personable man, Arnold, who is also a boxing promoter, but one day he disappears with all the money, including her winnings. Zoë dresses as a man and tracks him down in a travesty club, and stabs him with a knife. She is arrested and goes to jail for a long time.

The film is presented in documentary form, with black and white clips from before the stabbing, and the interviews include a brief segment with some of the travesty performers in the club where the stabbing took place.

Short film, 24 minutes.

HF November 2003

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