by
Douglas Messerli
Director unknown Renault Clio /
2008 [1.10 minutes] [commercial advertisement]
In this French-language
70-second commercial for the automobile maker Renault, a handsome young man
drives up to a club in his supermini Renault Clio filled with friends of both
sexes.
Meanwhile, waiting in line outside a dance
club are three elderly drag queens, obviously on a guest list to the club. As
the car pulls up closer to the queens, the young blond youth is a bit confused
and startled, calling out “Pappa?”
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The queen in a red-beaded dress, quickly
attempts to hide her face, but she knows there’s no way of getting around it.
The youth hollers out in French something like “Pappa, can you help get us in?”
The queen smiles, proud of her son and
his friends.
The ends if a view of the car being
parked, under which appear the words: “Bien dans son epoque, bien dans sa
twingo,” “Good for its time, good for a dance’” the word twingo, also the name
of a Renault city car, being a portmanteau of the words “twist, swing, and
tango.”
Los Angeles, May 7,
2024
Reprinted from My
Queer Cinema blog (May 2024).
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