In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and prejudices. Not in search of an identity, but in search of un-identities. Laerte creates and sends creatures to face reality in the fictional world of comic strips as a vanguard of the self. And, on the streets, the one who becomes the fiction of a real character. Laerte, of all the bodies, and of none, complicates all binaries. In following Laerte, this documentary chooses to clothe the nudity beyond the skin we inhabit.
Writing
Brilliant framing of comics as autobiographical weaponry.
Acting
Laerte's unguarded presence—wry, wounded, utterly magnetic.
Direction
Directors disappear; Laerte's world speaks for itself.
Director
Lygia Barbosa da Silva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laerte was already Brazil's most beloved cartoonist before transitioning publicly in 2009; the film captures a nation recalibrating its relationship with an icon.
Rita Lee's appearance isn't random celebrity filler—she and Laerte were counterculture comrades since the 1970s O Pasquim days.
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