DCP | 2025 | Alexis Langlois | France, Belgium | 114 mins | French w/ English subtitles
Official Selection at Cannes Critics’ Week 2024, screened at BFI London Film Festival 2024, nominated for the 2024 Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film, and presented at IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival 2025.
An outrageous lesbian pop musical satire inspired by the pop frenzy of the early 2000s, QUEENS OF DRAMA (Les reines du drame) charts the rise and fall of new star Mimi Madamour and her passionate, rage-fueled love affair with punk icon Billie Kohler. Over the course of half a century we follow these drama queens as they top the charts and set sail on the course of mad queer love. Featuring an iconic cast, including Asia Argento and Alma Jodorowsky, and containing hit songs like 'Don’t Touch' by Yelle and 'Fisted to the Heart', this film vividly dissects the turbulence of toxic relationships—whether between fans and their idols or within passionate queer love affairs. Director Alexis Langlois brings their trademark glittercore pop-punk aesthetic to create a vibrant, unforgettable spectacle of music and passion. (Altered innocence)
