Finlandia, dir. Horacio Alcalá, 2021, Spain/Mexico, 92m., in Spanish with full English subtitles 🙂
Saturday, June 25, 2022, 6:00pm New Parkway
+Streaming (note: only available within California)
We meet several muxes (pronounced “moo-shay”; a third gender) in Oaxaca, Mexico, plus a Spanish tourist (who is really there to steal the colorful clothing designs to then outsource them to Bangladesh). We start with an earthquake at the end of the chronology of the story and jump back and forth in time and flit between characters and story lines in a confusing jumble. There are many threads of story, but nothing really weaving them together. The muxes are a fascinating culture, the subject of a 2016 short film
Muxes (Frameline41) and a 2005 feature-length documentary
Muxes: Auténticas, intrépidas y buscadoras de peligro, but
Finlandia, this narrative feature, doesn’t do them justice. Interesting but unsatisfying. Recommended.
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