Transamerica (2005)
Country: US
Technical: col 103m
Director: Duncan Tucker
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Graham Greene
Synopsis:
A transsexual about to embark on gender reassignement surgery is obliged to acknowledge his past first by journeying across the country to New York to bail out his newly discovered son and confront him. Instead he poses as a Christian missionary do-gooder and there begins a journey west by car which is fraught with hazards and revelations.
Review:
Not the first time that a journey is a metaphor for (self-)discovery, but rarely has as unlikely a subject as this been a vehicle for anything but sniggering comedy or gothic horror. That the lead wholly convinces you she is a man in woman's clothing is the first astonishing achievement; that you then feel deeply for him/her by the end is the film's crowning success.
Country: US
Technical: col 103m
Director: Duncan Tucker
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Graham Greene
Synopsis:
A transsexual about to embark on gender reassignement surgery is obliged to acknowledge his past first by journeying across the country to New York to bail out his newly discovered son and confront him. Instead he poses as a Christian missionary do-gooder and there begins a journey west by car which is fraught with hazards and revelations.
Review:
Not the first time that a journey is a metaphor for (self-)discovery, but rarely has as unlikely a subject as this been a vehicle for anything but sniggering comedy or gothic horror. That the lead wholly convinces you she is a man in woman's clothing is the first astonishing achievement; that you then feel deeply for him/her by the end is the film's crowning success.
Country: US
Technical: col 103m
Director: Duncan Tucker
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Graham Greene
Synopsis:
A transsexual about to embark on gender reassignement surgery is obliged to acknowledge his past first by journeying across the country to New York to bail out his newly discovered son and confront him. Instead he poses as a Christian missionary do-gooder and there begins a journey west by car which is fraught with hazards and revelations.
Review:
Not the first time that a journey is a metaphor for (self-)discovery, but rarely has as unlikely a subject as this been a vehicle for anything but sniggering comedy or gothic horror. That the lead wholly convinces you she is a man in woman's clothing is the first astonishing achievement; that you then feel deeply for him/her by the end is the film's crowning success.