Faced with a fading star, leaking implants, a junkie lover and an AWOL son--not to mention a sense of Catholic guilt that prevents her from undergoing a sex-change operation--aging drag queen Tonia makes a final decision: to live as a woman, but die like a man. A gorgeous, eccentric and moving study of gender, identity and loneliness, this film definitively marks Joao Pedro Rodrigues as one of Europe's leading auteurs.

DIR/SCR João Pedro Rodrigues; SCR Rui Catalão; PROD Maria João Sigalho. Portugal, France, 2009, color, 133 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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