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  • 2004
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2004
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
Gender Bias

Summary A unique detective thriller, replete with unexpected plot twists. Bo Ancellin (Stévenin), a beautiful, young transsexual with a troubled past, becomes entangled with nosey Police Chief Huysmans (Boringer) as a series of demented killings erupts in Brussels' underground. (Picture This! Entertainment)

Directed By: Francis Girod

Written By: Philippe Cougrand, Brigitte Aubert, Francis Girod

  • 2004
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2004
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

Gender Bias

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
34
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
6.8
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Summary A unique detective thriller, replete with unexpected plot twists. Bo Ancellin (Stévenin), a beautiful, young transsexual with a troubled past, becomes entangled with nosey Police Chief Huysmans (Boringer) as a series of demented killings erupts in Brussels' underground. (Picture This! Entertainment)

Directed By: Francis Girod

Written By: Philippe Cougrand, Brigitte Aubert, Francis Girod

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
34
20% Positive
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40% Mixed
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40% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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Transfixed is a solid, engaging example of how a genre plot can illuminate a marginalized world.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
The film is at odds with itself, trying to present transgendered characters as resourceful and tough as nails while the plot habitually reduces them to traumatized masochists and helpless victims.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
40
What really sink the film are the script's reductive, outdated psychological implications (molestation leads to queerness/transsexualism) and its clumsy melodramatics.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
30
Mr. Girod is a fish out of water in the after-hours clubs and deserted industrial districts that constitute the sexual underworld of Brussels. His film feels more like what one would see from the top of a double-decker tourist bus than the work of someone who has immersed himself in a sexual subculture and its particular values.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
25
Dull despite its suspense-driven story.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW

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6.8
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Production Company Ognon Pictures, France 3 Cinéma, K2, Radio Télévision Luxembourg - Télévision Indépendante (RTL-TVI), Canal+, France Télévision Images
Release Date Jul 30, 2004
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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