Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
TIRESIA
Synopsis
Tiresia is a Brazilian transsexual who begins a life-changing transformation while being held captive by an obsessed man. Once blinded and left for dead by her admirer, she is cared for by a teenage girl. In physical limbo between genders, Tiresia discovers a gift for premonition.
Synopsis
Tiresia is a Brazilian transsexual who begins a life-changing transformation while being held captive by an obsessed man. Once blinded and left for dead by her admirer, she is cared for by a teenage girl. In physical limbo between genders, Tiresia discovers a gift for premonition.
Our take
Moving at a slow melancholic pace, Bertrand Bonello’s Tiresia asks more questions than it provides answers, as it casts a disturbing yet hypnotic gaze on its mysterious characters. Revisiting the gender-bending myth of Tiresias in the present-day, this a triumph of boundary-pushing body politics.