SummaryTonia is a large-than-life drag icon of Lisbon’s night life in the late 1980s. At the peak of her career, she meets and falls in love with Rosario, a young soldier who's gone AWOL. Under pressure from Rosario, Tonia begins a series of operations to become a woman but the final step proves much harder than she could have guessed. Torn between h... Read More
Directed By:João Pedro Rodrigues
Written By:João Pedro Rodrigues, Rui Catalão, João Rui Guerra da Mata
To Die Like a Man
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Generally Favorable
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Apr 7, 2011
91
To Die Like a Man deserves your attention for showcasing a filmmaker with the capacity for bold narrative trickery that doesn't come at the expense of emotional investment.
Apr 6, 2011
80
The film suddenly gains in power, until it fulfills the promise of its title with hard-hitting compassion and a crystal-clear sense of grace.
Apr 7, 2011
75
To Die Like A Man is powerfully controlled, and builds to a moving finale in which the characters are stripped down to their essences: no flowers, just stem.
Apr 7, 2011
70
For all its melodrama To Die Like a Man is a not a tearjerker. Its gaze into the void is as unblinking as that of the H.I.V.-positive 60-year-old hustler in Jacques Nolot's even more hard-headed film, "Before I Forget."
Apr 8, 2011
40
Strictly for patient, gay-friendly audiences, this drawn-out melodrama about an ageing drag star in overstays its welcome.
Apr 8, 2011
25
The praise for this static, overlong, stagebound work is a mystery to me.
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