TIFF BELL Lightbox - To Die like a Man
May 21st, 2011 by Gilbert Seah
To Die Like a Man
Seeped in saudade – the untranslatable Portuguese expression for sorrow – Rodrigues’ most critically-acclaimed film radically upends the drag queen genre with its compassionate, mystical tale of a transsexual torn between genders.
Tonia (Fernando Santos), an iconic drag performer, has been living like a woman with her straight, drug-addicted boyfriend. Beset with Catholic guilt, a rivalry with an up-and-coming drag queen and an aging and fatally ailing body, Tonia makes the painful decision to leave the world the way she was born into it.
To Die Like a Man will open at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Friday, June 24, 2011.
TIFF Cinematheque’s The New Auteurs: João Pedro Rodrigues’ Outlaws of Desire runs from Thursday, June 23 to Saturday, June 25. Provocative Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues and longtime collaborator João Rui Guerra da Mata will be in appearance at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
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