Themes: Gender, Desire, and Consent Central to Femme is an interrogation of gendered performance and the expectations that attend it. The title itself suggests a focus on femininity—how it is enacted, perceived, and policed. Rather than offering a didactic statement, the film foregrounds the ways people perform gender in private moments and how those performances collide with societal scripts about who should want what and how consent is signaled. By placing emphasis on ambiguity, Femme problematizes binary understandings of power: sometimes vulnerability is powerful, and sometimes passivity masks agency. This thematic complexity resists neat moralizing and instead prompts critical reflection.