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 ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 48 Minutes
Release Year:
1977
Original Name:
Cambio de sexo
I Want to Be a Woman (1977) - Also known as Cambio de sexo

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...

Producing Country:
Genre:
Release Date:

13 May 1977

Language:

Spanish

Director:

Vicente Aranda

Writer:

Vicente Aranda (screenplay), Carlos Durán (based on a story by), Joaquim Jordà (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Victoria Abril, Lou Castel, Fernando Sancho, Rafaela Aparicio

Plot:

Seventeen year old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10