Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transgender woman who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future.
Direction
Bonello's hypnotic long takes that refuse to look away.
Acting
Choveaux and Telès create one fractured, unforgettable soul.
Cinematography
Glowing reds and sickly greens—mythology made flesh.
Director
Bertrand Bonello
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bonello cast two actors for Tiresia after realizing no single performer could capture both her 'before' and 'after'—the switch happens mid-scene, uncut.
This premiered at Cannes 2003 alongside 'Elephant' and 'Dogville,' part of a wave of formally rigorous films about invisible violence—though critics then largely missed its trans feminist framework.
CA
FR
