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Dir Kate Davis
USA 2000 90 min
Documentary 35 mm
English with no subtitles
Dutch
premiere
Winner
of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2001.
Kate Davis (1960) edited Jenny Livingston's Paris is Burning before
she made her first documentary A World Alive in 1993.
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Lanky and lean at 52, Robert cuts a charming figure of genial Southern
courtesy, laconic good humor and uncommon self-knowledge. Robert has
never flinched from the truth-not since that day he realized he was
a boy in a girl's body-nor asked for sympathy, even as he forged a
new life in the face of his family's dismay. An extraordinary man
trying to live an ordinary life, Robert is thrown yet another curve
when he is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. (Since he was past menopause,
the doctors mistakenly concluded that a hysterectomy wasn't necessary).
Even the indignity of being denied treatment by several physicians
doesn't curdle Robert's view of the world. His transgendered lover,
Lola Cola, takes him in and nurses him with the goal of making one
last appearance at the annual Southern Comfort convention. The film
is a lovely tribute to people seeking safe spaces and community, or
creating their own where none exists.
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