2009 · weird-wave · transgender · melodrama
Strella
Directed by Panos H. Koutras1h 51m2009
Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young trans sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love.
Our read: Strella (2009) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive weird-wave · transgender · melodrama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured weird-wave / transgender, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- inventive
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