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Tiresia (2003)

Tiresia (2003)
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Director Bertrand Bonello adapts the Greek myth of Tiresias to a modern day setting with this unforgiving tale of a transsexual prostitute held captive by a man obsessed with her ethereal beauty. Bound in her lonely prison and deprived of the hormones that keep her from reverting back to manhood, Tiresia's increasingly obvious masculine traits slowly begin to repulse her captor until he brutally blinds her and leaves her to die. Tiresia's will to live is strong, however, and though the bizarre beauty lives on devoid of her sense of sight and trapped in an indefinable twilight zone somewhere between man and woman, her power of second sight gradually emerges until Tiresia becomes more in tune with the world than ever before. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Clara Choveaux, Thiago Teles, (more)
Director(s):
Bertrand Bonello
Format(s):
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Synopsis of Tiresia

Director Bertrand Bonello adapts the Greek myth of Tiresias to a modern day setting with this unforgiving tale of a transsexual prostitute held captive by a man obsessed with her ethereal beauty. Bound in her lonely prison and deprived of the hormones that keep her from reverting back to manhood, Tiresia's increasingly obvious masculine traits slowly begin to repulse her captor until he brutally blinds her and leaves her to die. Tiresia's will to live is strong, however, and though the bizarre beauty lives on devoid of her sense of sight and trapped in an indefinable twilight zone somewhere between man and woman, her power of second sight gradually emerges until Tiresia becomes more in tune with the world than ever before. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
115 mins

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Director(s):
Bertrand Bonello
Writer(s):
Bertrand Bonello
Producer(s):
Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal-Szlovak
Categories:
Mystery & Suspense
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    Paul M.

    The movie would not play.

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    Peter L.

    This movie was so bad that i swear if you rent it you`ll feel yourself dumbing up literally, don`t waste your time or effort on this one.

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    Shannon B.

    The only recognizable face in this strange movie is Laurent Lucas (Tiresia's kidnapper), who's made a career out of playing in intensely uncomfortable films. And while *Tiresia* is rather tame compared to some of his other endeavors, it's still slow, awkward, and unpleasant for most of the mercifully short running time. Inspired by the Greek myth of the twice gender-swapped seer Tiresias, the adaptation to a modern transgendered prostitute is oddly dull. Although the second half is much better than the first, the film's cryptic ending all but nullifies the audience's good will which the fine and delicate performance of Thiago Teles as blind Tiresia had accumulated. In all, this movie's disappointing--skip it.

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