Homophobic movie

Loie Fuller was openly a lesbian in 30 years long relationship with a woman, Gabrielle Bloch. This movie erases all of that, giving her a made up male romantic interest. What's really disgusting is the homophobic reasoning from the director and the cast for those decisions:

Stéphanie Di Giusto: "I also took the liberty of inventing the character of Louis Dorsay, performed by Gaspard Ulliel. I needed a male presence in this film populated by women. Loie Fuller was homosexual and it was important for me not to make it the subject of the film. Louis Dorsay touched me a lot: he is the sacrificed man in the film." (From the press release)

As it's been reported in article linked below, during the debate that followed the screening of the movie, the director made more grossly lesbophobic remarks. While bragging that "she wanted to "do justice" to the character of Loie Fuller, and show "honesty" towards her, she lectured the lesbian viewers who complained about erasure "not be sectarian" (sic), that "we may be lesbian and want experiences with men" (re-sic), that she had her freedom of artist and that "the idea was not to make the Life of Adele (Blue is the Warmest Color)" (laughter in the room)".
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The actress Soko, also present, came to the rescue, saying with a straight face that "the idea was not to make yet another lesbian movie". Since we have so many of them obviously, so straight people, having so little representation, have to straight-wash historical lesbian figures.

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/aude-fonvieille/blog/150916/chronique-de-la-lesbophobie-ordinaire