Fresh
Lyrical yet succinct.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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Wild Side
Overview
A transgender woman returns — with her two male lovers — to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
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63%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A morbid and self-important homosexual Jules & Jim for the new millennium.
Russell Edwards, Variety
Fresh
Viewers are either going to walk out after 10 minutes or, like this tolerant critic, get caught up in the sordid lives of the three misfits and stick around for the ambiguous ending.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
Lifshitz successfully maneuvers his trio of outcasts toward a state of grace: His vision of misfit utopianism, in its own quiet way, is as defiant as anything in Fassbinder.
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
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