Gender is performed, invisibly, until its conventions are broken. It is the disturbance of gender that frightens and repels the majority, and subsequently rejects, exotifies and ultimately endangers those who question it. The act of disturbance puts the finger right in the wound.
A film that left me speechless for a long time, in the best ways possible. Courageous and bold, and never shying away from its intentions, it puts the finger in the wound right where we need it. And you don't need to look so much closer to see what's also there, blatantly: Love and community. Hope and Despair. Everything that makes us human. An astounding, brilliantly crafted portrait.
A film that left me speechless for a long time, in the best ways possible. Courageous and bold, and never shying away from its intentions, it puts the finger in the wound right where we need it. And you don't need to look so much closer to see what's also there, blatantly: Love and community. Hope and Despair. Everything that makes us human. An astounding, brilliantly crafted portrait.