Sue Ramirez bares all in 'Flower Girl' with a strong comedic turn

They say diamonds are a girl's best friend.

- By JANUAR JUNIOR AGUJA

But in Cebuano filmmaker Fatrick Tabada’s solo directorial debut “Flower Girl”, now showing in cinemas, Sue Ramirez plays a sanitary napkin commercial model Ena, who has a different kind of companion: her lady part. She even gives it a nickname, “Poochy”, and treats it like a prized co-star in both her personal and professional life.

Ena is everything a modern woman is: opinionated, sex-positive, self-assured, and proud of her womanhood. The problem is, her views on gender identity are quite limited.

After an argument with a trans woman (played by KaladKaren) in a gas station restroom, Ena wakes up the next day, cursed that her Poochy is gone. With her love life and career hanging in the balance, she's placed on a timed mission, marked by a flower plant whose petals fall one by one as a countdown: find someone who can love her for who she truly is, or lose Poochy forever.

But the film isn’t really about whether she gets her Poochy back (voiced by a familiar Kapuso actress near the film’s end) or whether she finds someone who loves her. It’s about the journey Ena takes to change her perception of womanhood and herself as a woman.