2003 · drama · biography · sports
Beautiful Boxer
Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham1h 58m2003
Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman.
Our read: Beautiful Boxer (2003) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · biography · sports entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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