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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m

Summary Tonia is a large-than-life drag icon of Lisbon’s night life in the late 1980s. At the peak of her career, she meets and falls in love with Rosario, a young soldier who's gone AWOL. Under pressure from Rosario, Tonia begins a series of operations to become a woman but the final step proves much harder than she could have guessed. Torn ...

Directed By: João Pedro Rodrigues

Written By: Rui Catalão, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m

To Die Like a Man

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Tonia is a large-than-life drag icon of Lisbon’s night life in the late 1980s. At the peak of her career, she meets and falls in love with Rosario, a young soldier who's gone AWOL. Under pressure from Rosario, Tonia begins a series of operations to become a woman but the final step proves much harder than she could have guessed. Torn ...

Directed By: João Pedro Rodrigues

Written By: Rui Catalão, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
75% Positive
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
13% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
75% Positive
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
13% Negative
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91
Apr 7, 2011
To Die Like a Man deserves your attention for showcasing a filmmaker with the capacity for bold narrative trickery that doesn't come at the expense of emotional investment.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 6, 2011
The film suddenly gains in power, until it fulfills the promise of its title with hard-hitting compassion and a crystal-clear sense of grace.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 5, 2011
A mysterious, fabulously sad fable.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 7, 2011
To Die Like A Man is powerfully controlled, and builds to a moving finale in which the characters are stripped down to their essences: no flowers, just stem.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 7, 2011
For all its melodrama To Die Like a Man is a not a tearjerker. Its gaze into the void is as unblinking as that of the H.I.V.-positive 60-year-old hustler in Jacques Nolot's even more hard-headed film, "Before I Forget."
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 8, 2011
Strictly for patient, gay-friendly audiences, this drawn-out melodrama about an ageing drag star in overstays its welcome.
By Richard Mowe FULL REVIEW
25
Apr 8, 2011
The praise for this static, overlong, stagebound work is a mystery to me.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Rosa Filmes, Ad Vitam Production
Release Date Apr 8, 2011
Duration 2 h 14 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Autores Awards, Portugal
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, Portugal
• 2 Nominations
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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