In England in 1936, two female babies are exchanged by mistake. The truth erupts 18 years later thanks to the tenacity of one of the mothers who suspected this from the first day.

Mix-up has some of the style of Peter Greenaway's "Falls" and "The Draughtsman's Contract"... it's the work of a filmaker of original vision..."

"... her intelligence and point of view -along with her youth and foolhardiness- is manifest in every frame..." David EDELSTEIN - Village Voice

"As interesting as the story of "Mix Up" is the way Romand tells it : a queer, distanced, high-tech style, with carefully composed and balanced frames, symbolic settings and many obviously scripted and staged scenes. There's a pristine, farcical quality about the style, but it's very overcomposed rigor ironically suggests the absurdity of a world where havoc can be wreaked by mere chance, where things simply can't be controlled.

Mix Up is as unique and interesting a documentary as you're likely to see for quite a while."

"Her highly stylized presentation of what it all meant is at once a collective psychoanalysis, a danse and humorous 19 th-century novel with Dickensian characters, an essay on representation, a poetic integration of portraiture with domestic architecture, and a tragicomic existential melodrama.

Having seen this film about half a dozen times, I've found that it grows in power and resonance with every viewing. 

Romand's attack on her material seems intuitive rather than theorical or intellectual, but the seriousness and thoroughness with which she persues it -not only charting the process of two families reassessing their behavior and experiences, but also contriving to bring this process about- create a formal beauty and a witty precision in framing, pacing, editing, use of music, and mise en scene that is inseparable from the film's ethical and philosophical project 

My favorite film in my choice of Ten Best Movies of 1988."

"... But the film is consistently funny and poignant; at times raucous and roughhewn and at times affectingly delicate..." Michael SRAGOW - San Francisco Examiner

In a small village in France, a 55-year-old married man and communist activist becomes a transsexual with the help of his/her wife. His/her teenage son, however, has some qualms.

Huguette Voidies et Ovida Delect

...It's enough, as in fiction, that the film maker is able to persuade us to share her curiosity, surprise or point of view..."

"... it's a provocative, troubling and haunting spellbinder just the same, beautifully shot and originally conceived. The sound track is especially striking."

"The moral tale attracted Francoise Romand... she turned to Truffautâs "Vivement dimanche!" with its mischievous darkness, and to Demyâs bittersweet "Lola" and the "Demoiselles de Rochefort" (without the songs)..."