Somewhat belatedly and on DVD, I was able to watch Transamerica. Which turned out to be every bit as fantastic as its reputation. It's at once that arch-American genre, a road movie, and a twist on another arch-American thing: I've sometimes made remarks about the absolute dominance of father-son relationships as subjects in tv and movies and the
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This sounds like a good film. I'll have to watch it if I get the chance.
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Re: Fionnula Flanagan - one of several great things about her performance in The Others is that at first she seems to be a familiar archetype - the sinister housekeeper - and then, after the big revelation, you see her motives and actions in a very different light, and when you watch the movie a second time, you see her performance had already all the clues one needs...
Here, in Transamerica, her role, too, could easily have been caricature, but isn't, and she's the closest thing the movie has to an antagonist. Great actress.
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