Venus Boyz
by Gabrielle Baur
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Actor: Del La Grace Volcano, Diane Torr, Dr?d Gerestant, Mistress Formika, Queen Bee LusciousDirector: Gabrielle Baur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of Venus Boyz
Movie Review: Unfortunately, just interesting
Summary: 3 Stars
As he prepares to explain style, E.B. White writes: "Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries."
It is this mystery which causes this film to fail. There is so much of so much potency here; yet, it rarely ignites. (I think of only the two times the thin, black woman with very funky, dready hair breaks into song. There. . .that works. . .that moves. There is something going on inside her which merits more time, more exploration. That pathos, that struggle, that pain, that courage, that journey was what I was expecting in this film.)
The rest? It's mildly interesting. I'm made mildly curious about the world of drag kingdom as I could be made mildly curious about anything slightly foreign to me. But this way of life is not just slightly foreign to me.
The people? They were also mildly interesting. The entertainers seemed quite ordinary--like clerks with unspectacular lives--quite content within their own orbits and with their own celebrity. One of the entertainers talks about attending, then giving, workshops. . .
. . .There. . .That's it! That is exactly it: that all this--this potent stuff: this agonizing gender confusion, this social ostracism, this devestating loneliness--can become a matter of workshops?
Of course, although this film too often allows, it can't be.
Summary of Venus Boyz
{WINNER! Best Film -- Semaine de la Critique Locarno 2001}{WINNER! Panorama -- International Film Festival Berlin 2002}
{WINNER! Audience Award -- Copenhagen Gay&Lesbian Film Festival 2002}
{WINNER! Audience Award -- Mostra Lambda Barcelona 2003}
VENUS BOYZ explores how, for the various women involved, masculinity can be defined as performance, subversion, aesthetic choice or existential necessity. The Drag Kings profiled discuss their lives with candor, humor and insight, exploring or enacting male eroticism and power strategies with a self-confidence befitting the gender pioneers they are. As celebrated Drag King Mo B. Dick explains, "Instead of becoming an angry woman, I became a funny man." Baur also researches the world of female-to-male (FTM) and inter-sexed persons and follows their transformation, as we see women who experiment with male hormones to become 'new men' and 'cyborgs'.
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