short Frameline reviews, part 2

The only non-US movie I've seen this year at Frameline: Sworn Virgin, a very moving character study of an Albanian immigrant in Italy who's reinventing himself/herself in tiny steps, after having grown up in a rural community with such strict gender roles that the only safe choice for a woman who didn't want to be married off and didn't want to be limited to "women's work" was to officially become a (celibate) man (a custom that still exists).
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short Frameline reviews, part 1

With Meg's encouragement I'm finally starting to make it to more film festival stuff— I really have no excuse not to, since there are so many theaters here. Last year I guess we saw three or four things at Frameline (my favorite being Winter Journey; I hope that gets a US release soon), this year we're doing six.

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