Try the trailer for ‘Queens of Drama,’ a brand new movie starring newcomers Louiza Aura and Gio Ventura alongside Asia Argento, Alma Jodorowsky, and France’s 2019 Eurovision singer Bilal Hassani. Alexis Langlois’ glittercore, 2000s-set queer pop musical opens from Altered Innocence on April 18, 2025.
An outrageous lesbian pop musical satire impressed by the pop frenzy of the early 2000s, ‘Queens of Drama’ charts the rise and fall of latest star Mimi Madamour and her passionate, rage-fueled love affair with punk icon Billie Kohler. Over the course of half a century we comply with these drama queens as they prime the charts and set sail on the course of mad queer love. That includes an iconic solid, together with Asia Argento and Alma Jodorowsky, and containing hit songs like ‘Don’t Contact’ by Yelle and ‘Fisted to the Coronary heart’, this movie vividly dissects the turbulence of poisonous relationships—whether or not between followers and their idols or inside passionate queer amorous affairs. Director Alexis Langlois brings his trademark glittercore pop-punk aesthetic to create a vibrant, unforgettable spectacle of music and keenness.
That includes music by Rebeka Warrior and French digital band Yelle, plus composers Mona Soyoc and Pierre Desprats. ‘Queens of Drama’ is produced by Inès Daien Dasi and co-produced by Benoit Rolland. The movie will open at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn on April 18, increasing to extra Alamos throughout the nation on April 25 earlier than additional increasing to North American theaters in Might. Extra particulars may be discovered at www.alteredinnocence.web/queensofdrama
An enfant horrible of the brand new French queer cinema, Langlois first started by filming his associates, demons, and revolts in a sequence of brief movies and music movies which progressively formed his glittercore universe additional marked by political satire and poetry. Following TERROR, SISTERS!, which gained the Grand Prix at Competition Worldwide du Movie Indépendant de Bordeaux, and THE DEMONS OF DOROTHY, which garnered the Silver Leopard and the Grand Jury Prize for Younger Jury at Locarno in 2021, he directed his first function movie, QUEENS OF DRAMA, which made its premiere on the Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2024. The movie continued on to display screen at Austin’s Incredible Fest, TIFF Subsequent Wave, BFI London, Newfest, Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition, New Horizons Movie Competition in Poland, and extra.