Director: João Pedro Rodrigues Writers: João Pedro Rodrigues, Rui Catalão, João Rui Guerra da Mata Starring: Fernando Santos, Alexander David, Chandra Malatitch, Cindy Scrash Masks and makeup are often used to disguise one's true self and in Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues' (The Phantom, Two Drifters) To Die Like A Man, some characters desire to be someone different while others want to hide from reality. Rodrigues' narrative revolves around the existential quagmire in which a pre-operative transsexual named Tonia (Fernando Santos) is hopelessly stuck. When Tonia is told by a doctor, “nothing is discarded, everything is turned into something else,” we know this dialog is referring to much more than the origami-like process of re-purposing Tonia's penis into a vagina. How can anything in To Die Like A Man be taken at face value when the characters' faces [and genders] are blurred and/or transformed? Tonia is an aging Lisbon drag...
- 8/27/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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