Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
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★★★★★
The transgender heroine is a wonderfully complex, defiant and passionate character. One who keeps her poise and dignity in the most trying of circumstances.
She endures every kind of humiliation imaginable. And regardless of the story's sexual politics, Marin...
★★★★★
I had expected 'The Square' to win the foreign language Oscar, and I had hoped 'On Body and Soul' would take home the award. I was wrong. Instead of the urgency of the former or the poetry of the latter, the jury chose the delicacy of 'Una Mujer Fantástica'....
★★★★★
A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantastica) (2017) -
I was totally surprised that I enjoyed this film as much as I did. I must confess that I don't fully understand Transgender people, because how could I?
I'm not trans and apart from the fact that a pair of he...
★★★★★
Sebastian Lello's 'A Fantastic Woman' is, quite simply, a fantastic film, albeit a depressing watch. Telling the story of a transsexual woman whose partner dies and the hostility she faces from his family in the aftermath, it brilliantly captures a life of con...
★★★★★
I think a film like this needed someone very sensitive and attuned to the difficulty of the story, and thankfully that's what it achieved. Sebastian Lelio's voice comes shining through in each frame. I think the biggest factor that the film relied on was the a...
