2020 · documentary
Disclosure
Directed by Sam Feder1h 48m2020
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Our read: Disclosure (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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