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Of Love And Hatred
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|June 11, 2025
ET in a mining town in the interiors of Chile in the early 1980s, Diego Cespedes' debut feature film La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo) is an affecting portrait of a family and community of transgender women seen through the eyes of its beloved 12-year-old godchild Lidia (Tamara Cortes).
ET in a mining town in the interiors of Chile in the early 1980s, Diego Cespedes' debut feature film La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo) is an affecting portrait of a family and community of transgender women seen through the eyes of its beloved 12-year-old godchild Lidia (Tamara Cortes). She is the apple of her guardian/mother Flamenco's (Matias Catalan) eyes, as much an object of the matriarch of the commune, the elderly Mama Boa's (Paula Dinamarca), affection.
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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