Ma Vie En Rose has many different gender issues within it. When it comes to performativity, we see that when Ludo dances like Pam and imitates her dance moves. The difference between drag and performativity in this film is seen when Ludo dresses like a female and when he does female things like get married to his little friend or even when he feels he is getting his "period". In relation to Judith Butler, "gender is a doing, not a being." In order for Ludo to feel like a girl he has to do all of these things that are not considered the "norm". His family tries to fit him into a certain grid of intelligibility. They tell him how he should act and dress in order to be a boy. They do this to keep their comfort zone in tact. The whole neighborhood has a problem with his "doing" in "performing" as  a female. Ludo calls himself a boygirl because he has the bodily characteristics of a boy but he doesn't feel like a boy; he feels like a girl. He feels like he wants to be pretty and wear dresses and makeup and get his period like all the other little girls. When it comes to the world of Pam, she adds to his performativity of the gender. He uses her as somebody to imitate and that is what Judith Butler says drag is, she says it is an imitation. The fantasy sequences play into the whole fantasy of him being a little girl although he is a little boy.