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Transvestites Also Cry
Original Title
Les travesties pleurent aussi- Director: Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva
- Producer: Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva; Laurent Segal
CGiii Comment
This is what can be achieved with a cheap camera and great subjects.
Mia and Romina, illegal trans-prostitute immigrants...with hearts as big as Paris, allow their lives to be filmed.
They cry and complain just like everyone else - but, they do have more to cry about...the lives of illegal trans-prostitute immigrants is a not pretty sight.
And, when they smile - they light up the film.
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The(ir) Blurb...
Paris. In a small side street, seconds away from the Place the Clichy, two dirty and dingy hotels face one another. Behind their facades, the lives of marginal transsexuals from Ecuador take place. They all work as prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne. Among them, we meet "Mujeron", (the "Big Woman", in Spanish), a former boxer who chose prostitution and a solitary life in order to survive and help his family back home. We also meet the exuberant and ironic "Romina", who seems to have made her dreams come true thanks to prostitution: a woman's body, a housewife's routine, a small flat and some money. Two parallel existences that are apparently poles apart but will in fact unite in one tragic ending. Both light-hearted and tragic, switching from flirtatiousness to misery, from optimism to fatalism, the story of Romina and Mia balances between joyful complicity and solitary distress.