| | |  | Transamerican Love Story | Home » » » Another Woman | | | | | | | Description: | | This film tells the story of Nicolas, a doctor who left his wife and children to go have a sex change operation. Ten years later, he has become Lea, and has settled in Switzerland where she works for a pharmaceutical company. Sent on a business trip to Pa | | | Features: | |
• This film tells the story of Nicolas, a doctor who left his wife and children to go have a sex change operation. Ten years later, he has become Lea, and has settled in Switzerland where she works for a pharmaceutical company. Sent on a business trip to Paris, Lea's past life comes back to haunt her and she cannot resist seeing her children. She surreptitiously reconnects with the wife and chil
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Jerry Lucas, Antoine Dulery, Nathalie Mann, Aladin Reibel, Lizzie Brocher | | Director:
| Jerome Foulon | | Format:
| Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| French | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Casque Dor Film | | Run Time:
| 106 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 05, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 One of the best films EVER about gender identityAug 14, 2008
By Julia Mendenhall
I teach film and gender studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, and watched this film to see if I wanted to teach it. Without a doubt, I was just blown away by it! It's so well-crafted: great acting, wonderful music, lovely production values, but most importantly, it is a moving, smart story about characters that you really come to care about and identify with. The film uses all of its multidimensional characters to grapple with the specificity of transgender identity, and the rejection that Lea constantly faces, and it goes on to question the concept of gender, and to wonder just what it is that makes us fulfilled as human beings.
I wholeheartedly recommend Another Woman for everyone. It's warm, thought-provoking, and specific and, yes, universal. Will be teaching it in the spring!
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
It's gripping, entertaining, stunning and informing!Aug 18, 2008
By Kathryn Sorrells
This is an incredible film! A must see! It's an engaging, superbly acted and beautifully filmed story that captures the trials, tribulations and triumphs of love and family in our trans age. The 2004 French film, Another Woman (Une Autre Femme), reveals the struggles, scars and remembering of Nicholas' male to female transition to Lea, a journey accented throughout by shifts in gender and sexual identities as well as moves across class, social, and national borders. Reluctant yet drawn to re-connect, Lea concocts a ruse, disguising herself to re-enter the lives of her supposedly widowed wife and her children. Again, this is a must see! It's gripping, entertaining, stunning and informing. The depth of content is carried by the stellar script, acting and cinematography.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Another WomanAug 16, 2008
By Yvonne Behrens
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We programmed this film for Portland's Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in October 2007 because it has everything which we knew the audience would want and what makes it easy for a programmer to choose a film for ANY Film Festival. A great storyline, wonderful deep characters (Natalie Mann as Lea is just awesome), great soundtrack and the success of a sold out screening showed that this movie was right on target and definitely not only for the LGBT Community. Read about the storyline in the editorial review, don't want to repeat here. Additional this DVD includes also a short ENTREVUE by Marie-Pierre Huster which is a gem on its own. You will not regret buying this DVD, you will just regret not have seen it on the big screen!!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Excellent FilmSep 11, 2008
By Itchy Bee
I watched this recently and really thought it was an excellent film. Great story, acting, and one of the best transgender films I have ever seen. But on top of all that, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. The characters stayed with me long after and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a great movie to watch at home!
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Earnest but wretchedMay 04, 2009
By belqis
The plot is so implausible it defies credibility, especially the idea that the main character, Lea, is so transformed that her former wife does not recognize her, even after a close conversation (when we, the viewers, easily recognize her in photos of her previous "male" self).
I wonder why producers of films like this and "Transamerica" have to create transwomen characters who are so stiff, self-conscious, and utterly uncharming.
The film is earnest and probably has some educational value for the mass audience. One good point it makes is that deception and avoidance winds up creating more pain for everyone in the long run.
But overall, I found it depressing, dull, and the usual stereotypes.
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