Tiresia
Tiresia, un transsexuel brésilien d’une grande beauté, vit illégalement avec son frère dans la périphérie parisienne. Terranova, un esthète à la pensée poétique, assimile Tiresia à la rose parfaite. Il séquestre Tiresia afin de la faire sienne. Peu à peu, privée d’hormones, Tiresia va se transformer devant ses yeux. Impuissant devant ce que devient sa rose, Terranova va aveugler Tiresia et la laisser pour morte dans un quartier voisin. Dans un état pitoyable entre femme et homme, Tiresia est recueillie par Anna, une jeune fille u peu simple. Durant sa convalescence, Tiresia découvre en elle un don de prédiction, mais la présence d’un oracle dérange l’Église. Le prêtre n’a d’autre choix que de confronter Tiresia.
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TIRESIA - a little gem of a movie - rogerb666
Based on the legend of Tiresias who was a a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for being transformed into a woman for seven years.
Clara Choveaux plays a Brazilian transsexual in Paris and working as a prostitute; she is abducted by Laurent Lucas, an aesthete determined to possess the rose-like perfection of her fabricated beauty. Yet not long after becoming a house bound prisoner, Tiresia begins to change physically and her masculine traits re-emerge, until her captor, disgusted by a process he cannot stop pokes out Tiresia's eyes and dumps her unconscious body in the countryside.
He/She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future.
Clara Chovaux is excellent in this made-to-measure role and shows quite a depth of character considering the movie's simple premise.
A must see, if you like twisted french movies.
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TIRESIA - a little gem of a movie - rogerb666
Based on the legend of Tiresias who was a a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for being transformed into a woman for seven years.
Clara Choveaux plays a Brazilian transsexual in Paris and working as a prostitute; she is abducted by Laurent Lucas, an aesthete ...