To Die Like a Man ( Morrer Como Um Homem ) ( Morir como un hombre (Mourir comme un homme) )

To Die Like a Man (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Morrer Como Um Homem
Alternate Title: Morir como un hombre (Mourir comme un homme)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
128 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
João Pedro Rodrigues

Written By:
João Pedro Rodrigues
Rui Catalão

Actors:
Chandra Malatitch ..... Zé Maria
John Jesus Romão ..... Mendes
Ivo Barroso ..... Cardoso
Gonçalo Ferreira De Almeida ..... Maria Bakker
Miguel Loureiro ..... Paula
Francisco Peres ..... Médico cirurgião plástico
Fernando Santos ..... Tonia
Cindy Scrash ..... Irene
Carloto Cotta ..... Carlos
Jenni La Rue ..... Jenny
Gonçalo Mendes ..... Sergio
Alexander David ..... Rosário
Fernando Gomes ..... Teixeira
André Murraças ..... Dr. Felgueiras
Amãndio Coroado ..... Médico Hospital

Synopsis:

Once upon a time there was a war In the darkness of the night, a young soldier goes AWOL. Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbons drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from younger artists threatens her star status. Under pressure from her young boyfriend Rosário to assume her female identity, the sex change operation that will transform her into a woman, Tonia struggles against her deeply-held religious convictions. If, on the one hand, she wants to be the woman that Rosário so desires, on the other, she knows that before God she can never be that woman. And her son, whom she abandoned when he was a child, now a deserter, comes looking for her. Tonia discovers that shes ill. To get away from all her troubles she travels to the countryside with Rosário, on the excuse of visiting his brother. Rosário takes the road of his childhood but will never find the right way. Lost, they find themselves in an enchanted forest, a magical world where they come across the enigmatic Maria Bakker and her friend Paula. And that meeting will turn their whole world on its head

To Die Like a Man,' a ruminative exploration of gender identity, desire and aging, begins with a close-up of a young man's face being daubed with camouflage paint by a fellow soldier in preparation for a training mission. For the rest of this melancholic film by the Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues that image lingers as a mental double exposure with the visage of the movie's protagonist, Tonia (Fernando Santos), a fading drag queen in 1980s Lisbon. The war paint and makeup worn by Tonia, who appears in various stages of drag, are both disguises.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 11 April, 2011.

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