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    GIRL

    Jan 03, 2019 1 minute
    —Nick Davis

    Director: Lukas Dhont

    Country/Distributor: Belgium/Netherlands, Netflix

    Opening: January 18

    At first, Lukas Dhont’s promises a creative intervention within the fastexpanding array of trans-themed’s early sequences explore how two regimens of corporeal transformation mirror but also disrupt each other, once some familiar dance-academy dangers (overtraining, under-eating, etc.) endanger Lara’s candidacy for a gender-confirmation process that imposes its own heavy demands on her mental and physical health.

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