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Bree's desperate journey
TRANSAMERICA - Directed by Duncan Tucker
Certificate 15
FELICITY Huffman is not only married to William H Macy but she
is also a fine character actor in her own right and this was
never shown more fully than in her leading, Oscar-nominated
role as a transgender character in the wonderfully intriguing
Transamerica.
With one week to go before final gender-reassignment surgery,
our heroine gets a phone call from a young man claiming to be
her son. Formerly known as Stanley, our heroine Bree (pictured)
has to decide what to do – or rather whose advice to follow.
Her therapist gets her operation delayed until this issue of
the errant son is sorted out – a rather awful thing to
happen and one which will make anyone considering parenthood
to perhaps think again.
Without an operation to go to, Bree does the right thing: she
gets on a plane to NY and goes to look for the boy who says
he is her son. Toby (played by Jason Zegers) encounters Stanley/Bree
as the protagonist disguises herself as a missionary, bailing
the boy out of jail and surprisingly getting him to come back
to LA with her via the open road.
Huffman’s beautiful portrayal of this amazing character
– complete with careful speaking style and fantastic hair
and makeup – is astonishing. Her every movement is measured,
her every thought defined into her new identity. |
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