How a drag queen makes hearts capsize "Three nights a week"

• A photographer falls in love with a drag queen and has to deal with her new passion.

• "Three nights a week", first film by Florent Gouleou, introduces the world of "Drags".

• It is above all a beautiful love story carried away by Pablo Pauly and the discovery Romain Eck.

A delightful love story!

discovered in Venice, orchestrates the encounter between a heterosexual photographer played by Pablo Pauly, and Cookie Kunty, a flamboyant drag queen played by Romain Eck who is making her screen debut.

“The role was written for me, which was very rewarding, says the latter at

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It was the first time that I had been filmed “in civilian clothes” and I didn't want to disappoint either the others or myself.

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The metamorphosis of this reserved young man into queen of the night is absolutely magical.

Romain Eck can be proud of the image he gives of himself and of a generous environment.

“Everyone is welcome in the drags, confirms Pablo Pauly to

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That's what I discovered while shooting the film and that's also what we wanted to show.

“Things are not easy for the hero, however, who has to make his partner, played by Hafsia Herzi, accept his new sentimental situation.

A constantly benevolent gaze

Like the hero, the viewer is bewitched by the dual personality of Cookie/Romain who has the courage to reveal his flaws and show the details of his transformation.

"The benevolent looks of Pablo and Florent in particular were decisive," he says.

They allowed me to bare myself without feeling judgement.

I hope it shows in the movie.

» Bet won!

Cookie and her friends become our "girlfriends" during the screening, as their joie de vivre is sparkling even in adversity.

“The film is above all a love story like any other, insists Romain Eck.

It happens in the "drags" but what matters are the feelings that the characters feel.

The relationship between the lovers is not easy in this tender film which manages to avoid caricature without falling into a murky naturalism.

Both must reconcile very different diurnal and nocturnal lives with their various obligations.

We obviously think of

by Stephan Elliott but

is anchored in the reality of present-day France, which makes the film all the more fascinating.

“Being a drag queen is a way of asserting your freedom and it is to share this joy that I encourage everyone to come and see drag shows,” says Romain Eck.

This happiness and this solidarity rub off on the whole of a sincere and successful first film.

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