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The Starline :: 7:00pm :: Friday, September 21st
Une Autre Femme
- $5.00
- Director: Jerome Foulon
- 2002, France, 106 minutes. In French with English subtitles
French actress Nathalie Mann is captivating in this award-winning performance as a post-op transsexual woman trying to connect, albeit reluctantly at first, with the family she produced years ago as a miserable man. Can this MTF doctor heal old emotional scars without creating new ones? And what does she do with her own relentless paternal love?
Desperately unhappy, Nicolas left his wife and kids to discover his true nature and never returned. Living under the radar in Geneva, he transformed into Léa. Three years after her final painstaking surgery, this new woman has the chance to return home to Paris on a work assignment. Reluctant and terrified to face her past, she is nonetheless drawn into the lives of her children.
This portrayal is powerful, and the story wrenching, as we quickly realize this could happen to any of us in the same emotional state. What must have seemed impossible at the time, relinquishing the love of a family, is now hellish, seeing the family you left behind now happy and under the care of a new man.
Still, the drive to reconnect is too strong for Léa, and while she juggles her sea of lies, she is eventually overwhelmed to reveal the truth. Will the consequences be too much for Léa, or will her former wife Anne and her children Emmy and Lucas decide to close ranks against this intruder?
As a transsexual woman, I realize I watch trans-themed movies through a different filter. Minor details that clank off-key can ruin an entire production for me. In (this film), there is dialogue that rings so laser-beam true to what I have experienced and what my friends have experienced that it made me squirm with discomfort.
Christine Daniels, LA Times
Casting Pearls
- Director: Andrea James
- 2006, USA, 7 Minutes
Calpernia Adams stars as a transsexual actress learning the ins and outs (mostly outs) of auditioning for female parts in Hollywood.
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