Princesa

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Summary: WHEN YOU'D RATHER BE AN ITALIAN PROSTITUTE!
Review: Fernanda, a brazilian guy who wants a sex change calls himself/herself Princesa and whore's himself out in ROME in order to pay for his operation. Princesa is very pretty and married guy decides he wants to divorce his wife, pay for Princesa's operation and marry her. Unfortunately Princesa is a moron and would rather live as a whore ultimately than with that hot guy. Some people have no taste. And Princesa is one them.

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Summary: This is why I like indy films
Review: If you liked 'The Crying Game' you'll probably like this. Not that they deal with similar material, but the sense of a seedy paralell world existing next to the one most of us inhabit is there. Cesare Bocci is fine as hell. I wish he were in more films. Ingrid de Souza is a beautiful and sympathetic character but you get frustrated with her choice at the end. Overall, definately worth adding to your dvd collection.

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Summary: WHEN YOU'D RATHER BE AN ITALIAN PROSTITUTE!
Review: PRINCESA is an Italian film that hints of Fellini's best movies and yet has a style that is less bravure and more sensitive and touching. The world of prostitution has been widely examined by writers and directors, but the world of prostitution where the main characters are all transexuals or transvestites has only been sugggested in the works of Almodovar and a few other daring avant garde directors. PRINCESA (the street name of the main character, a young man from Brazil who moves to Milan to make enough money as a hooker to pay for his much desired gender change operation) takes on only the subject of how these extravagantly dressed prostitutes survive the street life that supports them. There are friends of Princesa who are also from Brazil and the dialog is in both Italin and Portugese and well transtlated in subtitles. The story is simple: Princesa falls in love with a 'john' who at first rejects her when he discovers she has male genitalia even though her face and breast implants costume her as a beautiful woman. The rejected Princesa moves in with the Madame of the prostitutes (Karin - likewise a transexual) and finds support and caring and a good life. When Princesa's 'john' (Gianni) returns to apologize for his initial behavior, they slowly develop a relationship, fall in love, and the rest ....you must see the film to discover.

The characters are so beautifully acted that it is difficult to tell if the actors are male or female! The cast is strong, never creating parodies but instead allowing the inner person to emarge in a credible way. The photography and music score are excellent. A very fine litlle movie this!

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Summary: A Poignant, Brave Little Film
Review: PRINCESA is an Italian film that hints of Fellini's best movies and yet has a style that is less bravure and more sensitive and touching. The world of prostitution has been widely examined by writers and directors, but the world of prostitution where the main characters are all transexuals or transvestites has only been sugggested in the works of Almodovar and a few other daring avant garde directors. PRINCESA (the street name of the main character, a young man from Brazil who moves to Milan to make enough money as a hooker to pay for his much desired gender change operation) takes on only the subject of how these extravagantly dressed prostitutes survive the street life that supports them. There are friends of Princesa who are also from Brazil and the dialog is in both Italin and Portugese and well transtlated in subtitles. The story is simple: Princesa falls in love with a 'john' who at first rejects her when he discovers she has male genitalia even though her face and breast implants costume her as a beautiful woman. The rejected Princesa moves in with the Madame of the prostitutes (Karin - likewise a transexual) and finds support and caring and a good life. When Princesa's 'john' (Gianni) returns to apologize for his initial behavior, they slowly develop a relationship, fall in love, and the rest ....you must see the film to discover.

The characters are so beautifully acted that it is difficult to tell if the actors are male or female! The cast is strong, never creating parodies but instead allowing the inner person to emarge in a credible way. The photography and music score are excellent. A very fine litlle movie this!

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Summary: Subtle, Sensitive movie
Review: This is a beautiful, simple, unpretensious movie. The acting is wonderful, given that most of the transvesties are acting their real live experiences. Ingrid de Souza is fantastic, very elegant, and misterious. The story is simple, yet it portrays a reality that we never witness. A real jewel. I loved it!

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Summary: The grass isnt always green on the other side
Review: Well to be honest the movie is a bit of a conflict. I found it hilarious how charlote one of princesa friend was so mean and nasty to her . Princesa is a brazilian transexual that goes to italia to be a whore to save for a sex change but at the end desides to stay a whore a transexual whore rather than become a female and get a vagina . This movie shows how not all transexuals want a vagina no matter how feminine they look but then again as the movie shows there a bit market out there for this ladies . Theres the straight married clientely that have a double life like most man. This movie shows a sensitive side to friendships and been happy that way you are , but at the same time its sad how a person would want to be in the streets rather than be with someone that loved her. Her decesion worked for her but Im sure not for everyone thats the way the cookie crumbles.