I Want to Be a Woman
– José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some ..
José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get bullied at school. The school principal decides that José is the disruptive influence, and asks for him to be removed from the school. The father berates the boy, and his mother, for his failure to be a red-blooded young man, and sends him away for a while to live with a friend in the country. Father visits the boy, and takes him to a strip club in Barcelona, run by a lady friend of his, intending that this will "cure" him of his sexual reserve. However one of the acts is a pre-operative transsexual, and there is a full frontal exposure at the end. Father has arranged that after the show...
13 May 1977
Spanish
Vicente Aranda
Vicente Aranda (screenplay), Carlos Durán (based on a story by), Joaquim Jordà (screenplay)
Victoria Abril, Lou Castel, Fernando Sancho, Rafaela Aparicio
Seventeen year old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual