Director
João Pedro Rodrigues
Year
2009
Run Time
133
min
Country
France
Language
Portuguese
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
Once upon a time there was a war… In the darkness of the night, a young soldier goes AWOL. Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbon’s drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from younger artists threatens her star status. Under pressure from her young boyfriend Rosário to assume her female identity, the sex change operation that will transform her into a woman, Tonia struggles against her deeply-held religious convictions. If, on the one hand, she wants to be the woman that Rosário so desires, on the other, she knows that before God she can never be that woman. And her son, whom she abandoned when he was a child, now a deserter, comes looking for her. Tonia discovers that she’s ill. To get away from all her troubles she travels to the countryside with Rosário, on the excuse of visiting his brother. Rosário takes the road of his childhood but will never find the right way. Lost, they find themselves in an enchanted forest, a magical world where they come across the enigmatic Maria Bakker and her friend Paula. And that meeting will turn their whole world on its head… (Description courtesy of Cannes Film Festival)
This film is presented in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Famed Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues bring his latest film, hailed in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes, to the Boston LGBT Film Festival. Rodrigues' tale of Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbon’s drag shows, who watches the world around her crumble, continues our focus on Latin cinema.
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