transvestite
Summer Nights aka Les Nuits d’Eté
After its wonderfully dramatic and promising opening scene with one middle-aged transvestite dishing out therapy to another matronly looking one lying on the couch, Summer Nights slowly muddles it way through a series of stories that often fail to make much sense. The main plot strand concerns Mylene the one lying on the couch…
Madam Baterflai
The sub-title of Argentinian filmmaker Carina Sama’s first documentary movie is ‘diversity within diversity’ which aptly covers this close study of the lives of four transvestites and one transsexual in Bolivia today. Each of the five have made an extraordinary journey to reach the point of where they are now, and whilst most of have…
Disrupted aka Quebranto
When Fernando Garcia Ortega was a young boy in Garibaldi, Mexico City in the 1970’s his pushy mother got him into the movies. It was tough being a child actor and filming a scene in his first big break the Director stopped the cameras and asked for more reality in the mob fight that was…
