«Girl», the film of a controversial trans dancer

Girl Lukas Dhont «Girl», the film of a controversial trans dancer

"Girl" is a candidate for the Golden Globe in foreign language

GAYLES.TV.- «Girl»Is inspired by a piece of news that the director of the film Lukas Dhont read in a newspaper. Fascinated by the story of the dancer Nora Monsecour, he decided to take his story to the big screen. What at first had to be a documentary turned into a realistic film that revolves around Lara, a trans teen whose dream is to be a dancer. Both the director and the protagonist of the film Victor Polster (who won an award at the Festival de Cannes Film) are released with this film that is causing controversy among the community LGTB +.

Girl Lukas DhontThe controversy is given because neither the director, nor the scriptwriter, nor the actor are trans, and we already know that since the collective claims job opportunities since trans interpreters have many difficulties for achieve papers. Dhont He defended himself by explaining that for the main role he auditioned more than 500 artists in which there were trans actors. According Dhont, who are "Girl » It is not a film that aims to generalize the process that all transgender people go through, but it tells a concrete story.

The other great controversy (Spoiler alert: stop reading here if you do not want to know more about the movie) is the final scene in which Lara The penis is cut with scissors. This act has outraged film critics as Olivier Whitney who wrote in The Hollywood Reporter which "Girl" is the «most dangerous movie about a trans character in years«. According Whitney the movie "sends a harmful message to the viewer, but especially trans people who may not have access to medical care or information about medical transitionss ». It has also been pronounced Nick Adams, director of transgender media in GLAAD, who noted that the scissors scene «could cause a young person to harm himself beyond repair or even to end his life«.

The film will be available soon in Netflix, which has acquired the emission rights.

Source: The New York Times, The Palomitrón

Photograph: Netflix

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