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Film Review: Vestido de Novia

By Miriam Psychas

One warm Havana afternoon, Rosa Elena checks up on a transgender friend, Sissy, who is suffering from the complications of a black-market breast augmentation. Rosa’s husband, Ernesto, expresses his disapproval of Sissy, and she pleads with him to understand and sympathize with transgender people—a plea that is secretly for her as well. Later, Ernesto will discover that before they met, Rosa Elena herself transitioned from male to female.

This scene from Vestido de Novia, by Cuban director Marilyn Solaya, illustrates a pervasive theme of love and acceptance tempered by...

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