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36 I’VE SEEN FILMS 2010 International Film Festival Gloss - Cambiare si può Gloss - Cambiare si può Genre: Fiction Year of Production: 2009 Runtime: 90’ Country: Italy Original format: DVD Language: Italian Debut Work Director: Valentina Brandolini Screenplay: Valentina Brandolini Cinematography: Marco Carosi Editing: Paolo Maselli Music: Pasquale Catalano Cast: Lucia Mascino, Paolo Giovannucci, Gianluca Pezzino, Rosa Fumetto, Nicholas Pirone, Angelica Ippolito, Tommaso Ramenghi Production: Filand Srl Gloss is the story of a transexual girl who wants to change her sexual identity. Director’s Biography Valentina Brandolini is a filmmaker from Italy, born in 1968. She is a film and videoart director. ‘Gloss - Cambiare si può’ is her feature film debut.
I’VE SEEN FILMS 2010 International Film Festival Gloss - Cambiare si può Gloss - Cambiare si può FIlm notes Alex is living a seemingly untroubled and routine life in a perfume shop. It appears that she is taking her transgender status lightly, with customers that pamper her and treat her respectfully. But this is all pretence because, in truth, she must still come to terms with Alessandro, her own male identity, which after turning 12, she decided to forcibly remove. Alex’s journey is revealed when her analyst discovers the truth through traditional sessions and hypnotic practices. This film has a plus that is seldom found in similar works: it has the capability to take the heat out of a burning issue. It succeeds in showing us, with light and swift touches, a very important topic, which nonetheless should never be left to the dark thoughts of sad sociologists. The risk of falling into a silly atmosphere, or on the contrary, to have a collision with drama, is all there. However, we appreciate the touch of Valentina Brandolini, the director and scriptwriter, who gives us 90 pleasant minutes of a story that, basically, also has the merit of being extremely plausible. We, as an audience, recognize ourselves in the psychological torment of a character who is determined to make an important decision but we also recognize ourselves in her absent-mindedness and in her occasional ability to win back her smile. The director describes it as a “film in which the change of sex is related to the common search of changing and improving our own look, with the aim of getting it as close as possible to an ideal point. It is a delicate and, at the same time, straightforward film, focused on an actual and much talked-about issue, of which we know only very few inner and practical implications; all of this is the result of the director’s time consuming contemplation and preparation work. A submerged world, the transgender one, is described in this film without allowing pathetic or ridiculous overtones to get in the way. It is just what it seems: a world of people who are looking for their own identity. 37
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