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Forbidden Love 1977

Forbidden Love 1977
Cambio de sexo (original title)
1h 48min | Drama | 13 May 1977 (Spain)

Storyline:

Seventeen year old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual

User review:

I didn’t have a much knowledge of Spanish cinema until I started to watch Almodovar/Aranda movies. Sure you can’t put them on same rate. They share only two things – a lot of sex scenes and Victoria Abril. It was interesting to see, how it all started. Here we can see 17-years old Abril playing teenager named Jose Maria with identity problem. Not easiest part to do, but she manages perfectly – as always. After getting himself into lots of trouble, Jose Maria finally becomes a dancer in night club and manages to find his love. Besides Victoria Abril we can see here a real transsexual Bibiana Andersen/Fernandez, who might to drive any man insane only with one look (in positive meaning only). She stars as herself and Jose Maria’s spiritual teacher. She’s a quite good actress, really. Too bad Almodovar didn’t gave her big enough parts. However her screen relationships with Jose Maria didn’t last too long, and this is one part in the script that I hated. As about script in particular – it could be much better. Starts OK, continues slowly, ending sloppy. The whole movie is generally cute, but not much else. Though, it worth watching because of Abril and Andersen. If you want to spend your time watching something nice and not too depressing – go for it.

Director: Vicente Aranda
Writers: Vicente Aranda (screenplay by), Carlos Durán (based on a story by)
Stars: Victoria Abril, Lou Castel, Fernando Sancho
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Release Date: 13 May 1977 (Spain)
Also Known As: Change of Sex
Filming Locations: Barberà del Vallès, Spain