Reviewed by Linda Marric
A few films have managed to garner the kind of good will directed at Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s brilliantly well observed feature A Fantastic Woman. Nominated for a foreign language Oscar at this weekend’s Academy Awards, the film offers a wonderfully complex, engaging and thoroughly affecting account of a young trans woman’s battle against preconceived ideas about gender and sexuality in a traditional latin society. Staring transgender actress Daniela Vega in the principle role, A Fantastic Woman is as innovative in its story telling as it is tender in its dealings with issues relating to grief and loss.
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