MetroWeekly.com – by Will O’Bryan
Date: Sunday, 10/14/2007
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: E Street Cinema
Tickets: $10 Buy tickets online
Type: Feature presentation
Language: French with English subtitles
Metro Weekly Rating: starstarstarstarstar (5 out of 5) CRITIC’S PICK!
Watching Another Woman, and thinking back to Thelma from the 2003 Reel Affirmations festival, one could reasonably wonder whether France is making a 21st century cinematic name for itself with movies about transgender women set in Switzerland.
Though produced a year earlier than Thelma, the made-for-TV Another Woman returns us to Switzerland, where we meet Léa (Nathalie Mann) in a tale ”liberally based on a true story,” which is both gripping an masterfully delivered with just enough drama to keep audiences thoroughly engaged, but not so much as to be bombastic.