Casa Roshell

Loz Loory

A film that manages to set up and maintain an amazingly languorous, sensual, soothingly humane tone. So often drag queens appear in mainstream movies as objects to poke fun at. Here people are not reduced or objectified; they are shown as whole people, struggling to come to terms with their desires, dreams, and fears. It's wonderful to learn more about those trying to break away from lives of quiet desperation.

Penelope q

Very beautiful call for freedom of identity.

albericoines

Muy fina, muy sutil, comunica verdades, problemáticas cotidianas fuera de el mundo light.

Korial

I assure you that more than a couple of thoughts will populate your mind after viewing this movie. The director successfully manages to reproduce the nightly nature of these identities, their marginality, as well as making us feel at home and emphasise with their struggle. It is an unsophisticated look at trans gender people which, with its warmth and closeness, manages to be more than documentary.

Katya Kazbek

I had low expectations during a long take of a person beating their face: it's hard to woo me merely with portrayal of drag, trans issues or any other queer stuff. However, this film raises important questions about relationships, intimacy and identity. It's drenched in the fatigue of people who live in the future but have to commute through the past, and makes a compelling, albeit brief study of gender capitalism.

msmichel

A fairly candid look at a drag club is captured in this documentary by Camila Jose Donoso. The queens, a mix of transgenders and cross dressers, are older and mostly comfortable in their marginalized escape to a club where they're not judged. It's been done better ('Mala Mala' comes to mind) but well worth a look.

Eric Rucker

Thank you, Mubi, this is why I am here: not just a socially important and challenging story, but an important challenge for us who watch, in terms of how the story is told, and a challenge to the normal industrial conventions, to the nature and history of film. Film that dares to be misunderstood while endeavoring to increase understanding, and self-reflection of makers, subjects, and viewers.

Federico D'Accinni

Rather than a drag club hidden from the crowd and the outside world, the one run by Roshell and Lili wants to be a space of shared collectivity, one that aims at welcoming diversity of background, ideology or sexual orientation. Juggling both documented reality and fiction, CASA ROSHELL stands as a powerful ode to freedom of identity, as well as a methodical observation of queer language and self-expression.