Saturday, June 21, 2025

Thesis on a Domestication (Tesis sobre una domesticación)

Thesis on a Domestication (Tesis sobre una domesticación) 💩🙄🥱👎, dir. Javier van de Couter, 2024, Argentina/Mexico, 113 min., in Spanish with English subtitles
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 8:30 pm, Roxie Theater
⚠️ content advisory: transphobia, explicit sex

a woman in a red dress and a man in a white robe sit at opposite ends of a sofa, in front of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city, gazing disinterestedly away from one another
Thesis on a Domestication
(Tesis sobre una domesticación)

First, a quick bit of translation for the trailer, where the subtitles use a U.K. slang term not well known in the U.S.: a tufthunter is a person who seeks association with persons of title or high social status.

A successful trans actress (played by co-writer Camila Sosa Villada, who is so proud of her work that her name doesn’t even appear in the cast listing on IMDb unless you really dig) is famous for her wild sex-and-drugs lifestyle. Then, inexplicably, she decides to marry a gay lawyer who is inexplicably drawn to her. If there’s anything beyond lust and drugs to fuel this relationship, we don’t see much of it on screen. To make the situation more complicated (but not particularly interesting), they decide to adopt a child, a pre-teen boy whose mother died of AIDS. Then they inexplicably decide to visit the actress’s father — who all but disowned her — back in her home town.

It’s a trainwreck of a film about a couple of trainwrecks of characters. Definitely well worth avoiding. Even the sex scenes were mostly remarkably unsexy. Not recommended.

IMDbtrailer • official website • Tesis sobre una domesticacion

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