Does this film deserve preferential treatment because it springs to the defence of transgender people? Three Generations is drenched with good intentions, but it relies too heavily on the formula that hundreds of indie films have repeated since Little Miss Sunshine's success: a crazy family sometimes makes a mess of things, but everything turns out alright in the end.

Here too, the audience gets pleased more than challenged. There is enough reason for you to miss the heartache that the late John Cassavetes used to reveal in his films. Fortunately, just like in The Neon Demon, it is a pleasure to watch Elle Fanning.

She plays a sixteen-year-old boy from New York who is trapped in the body of a girl. Before the operation that will turn Ramona into Ray, she needs the signature of the father she has never known. While we wait, mother Naomi Watts pulls the most concerned faces, while the jokes from the lesbian grandma Susan Sarandon ensure that we don't start worrying too.

> Three Generations. US, 2015, dir.: Gaby Dellal, act.: Elle Fanning, Naomi Watts Susan Sarandon, 87min., UGC Gulden Vlies/Toison d'Or

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