To Die Like A Man

Review A wry, strangely enchanted tragicomedy --Dennis Lim, Cinema Scope One of the most daring new talents to emerge in the past decade --Melissa Anderson, Village Voice Product Description Tonia is a larger-than-life drag icon of Lisbon's night life in the late 1980s. At the peak of her career, she meets and falls in love with Rosario, a young soldier who's gone AWOL. Under pressure from Rosario, Tonia begins a series of operations to become a woman but the final step proves much harder than she could have guessed. Torn between her love for Rosario and her deeply-rooted religious convictions, Tonia looks for distraction in a trip to the countryside with Rosario. Lost along the way, the couple find themselves in an enchanted forest where everything they think they know about life and love is proven wrong. Part melodrama, part phantasmagorical fairy tale, to Die Like a Man is visual extravaganza. About the Actor Fernando Santos, started getting attention in film and TV work in 2000 when he was on a TV show called Family Doctor that aired in Portugal and other parts of the world. He has since participated in many queer films such as The Heart s Root (2001), and A Outra Margem (2007). Santos was also nominated for the equivalent of the Golden Globes in Portugal in 2010 in the Best Actor category for his performance in To Die Like A Man. About the Director Lisbon native, Joao Pedro Rodrigues was born in 1966. He began studying biology at Lisbon University to become an ornithologist, but soon gave that up for cinema studies and graduated from Lisbon Film School. He got his start in the industry as an assistant director and editor, before directing his first short film in 1997, Happy Birthday! (Parabens!). In this film a man is awakened by his girlfriend s birthday wishes on the answering machine before it s revealed that he s sharing a bed with another man. The short s sexually confused theme would become one that Rodrigues would continue to explore in his features. His short Happy Birthday! was awarded a Special Jury Mention in the 54th Venice International Film Festival. His feature debut, O Fantasma (2000), won another Grand Prix at Entrevues and Best Feature at the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. His second feature, Two Drifters (2005), earned a Cinemas de Recherche Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2007, Morrer Como Um Homem (To Die Like A Man) was selected by the Cinefondation for the Atelier of Cannes Film Festival at the same time his last short China China, co-directed with Joao Rui Guerra da Mata, was presented at the 39th Directors Fortnight at Cannes.
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