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To Die Like a Man
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“…rewards patience with beauty and mystery. Fernando Santos plays Tonia, né Antonio, a drag queen whose unhappy life consists of familiar Almodóvar highs and Fassbinder lows…. Mr. Rodrigues transports Tonia and her boyfriend into a sanctuary where another drag queen, channeling Judy Garland circa 1961, takes them — and us — over the rainbow…. A moment of rapture… And then everything shifts again, this time into justly earned tragedy.” -Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
To Die Like a Man / Morrer como um homem
João Pedro Rodrigues, 2009, Portugal, 138m
There’s never been a drag-queen film like this endlessly surprising tragicomedy, the third feature by the Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues. Tonia, born Antonio (Fernando Santos), a battle-scarred veteran of the Lisbon clubs, must deal with a junkie lover young enough to be her son, an actual son who’s prone to violent outbursts, and a buxom rival who delights in reminding her she’s past her prime. Throw in medical complications, Catholic guilt, and a fateful trip to an enchanted forest, and you will begin to understand why someone so determined to live like a woman reconciles herself to dying like a man. A moving rumination on the mysteries of identity, To Die Like a Man is a film of subtle raptures, with a brittle, anguished sense of humor that doesn’t conform to any existing notion of camp.
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