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  • 2008
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute, Raquela, decides to travel in order to find her prince charming. Like many Transsexuals (often known as "Ladyboys") in the Philippines, Raquela dreams of marrying a heterosexual man from the West. She spends much of her time on the internet looking for men who can come and rescue her. They pr...

Directed By: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

Written By: Benedikt Jóhannesson, Stefan C. Schaefer, Thor Thorsteinsson, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

  • 2008
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 20 m

The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute, Raquela, decides to travel in order to find her prince charming. Like many Transsexuals (often known as "Ladyboys") in the Philippines, Raquela dreams of marrying a heterosexual man from the West. She spends much of her time on the internet looking for men who can come and rescue her. They pr...

Directed By: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

Written By: Benedikt Jóhannesson, Stefan C. Schaefer, Thor Thorsteinsson, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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75
Queen Raquela's plotty elements don't always work: The acting in the story-driving scenes sometimes comes off as amateurish, and the circumstances that send Rios halfway around the world seem contrived. But de Fleur gets an astonishingly good performance from Stefan C. Schaefer.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Their film is a rarity in that Rios emerges as a vibrant, reflective woman, an individual who refuses to be defined by her transsexuality.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
70
Likeable if rambling first feature by Icelandic helmer Olaf de Fleur Johannesson ("Africa United") evinces the helmer's background in documaking, and reps a kind of quasi-doc itself with real-life trannies riffing on their own personas.
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The great strength of the film is that it is difficult to know where cinema verite leaves off and fiction begins.
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63
Rios is the glue that holds Johannesson's neither-fish-nor-fowl film together.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
Mildly engrossing, building to a final-act clash between First and Third worlds that is riveting and highly uncomfortable to watch.
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It's like being trapped in a roomful of teenage girls for 80 minutes.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cicala Filmworks, Nimbus Film, Poppoli Pictures
Release Date Sep 26, 2008
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating R
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Tagline A Cinderella Story
Website http://www.myspace.com/queenraquela
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Awards

NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cinemanila International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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