On June 3rd 1968, Factory member Valeria Solanas shot three bullets in Andy Warhol's chest. Solanas' extreme feminism and Warhol's eccentric entourage were the inspiration for Gender - a transgender black comedy in which the wacky plastic surgeon, Valerie, finally meets her gay biological father, Desire, and confronts him.
Acting
Schoenaerts before stardom, fully committed to chaos.
Direction
Lambo weaponizes 10 minutes like a cinematic grenade.
Director
Daniel Lambo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Schoenaerts' pre-Bullhead anonymity, this captures a Flemish underground obsessed with American counterculture violence.
The title 'Gender' weaponizes the word itself—surgery as both literal trans procedure and metaphor for the constructed nature of all identity, including Solanas' own essentialist feminism.
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