Venus Boyz

Name: Venus Boyz
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 22, 2003
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 46

2003

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First Run Features | Release Date: August 22, 2003

Summary: A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities. (First Run Features)

Director: Gabrielle Baur

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 102 min

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Ronnie Scheib

An utterly fascinating, beautifully crafted exploration of the world of drag kings -- women who dress, perform and/or live as men. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Baur's doc earnestly -- if not altogether adroitly -- examines masculinity as a performance, demonstrating that biology is not destiny. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

It is clear that these individuals have exercised considerable courage and determination to sort out their sexual natures and to be true to them. They have the sturdy sense of human survivors, and in Venus Boyz Baur regards them with compassion and dignity. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

This provocative, at times languid, documentary from German experimental filmmaker Gabriel Baur is something of travelogue through this unexplored frontier, a mixed-up, shook-up borderland where nothing, especially not an individual's gender, should be ever be taken for granted. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

It's not uninteresting, but so much footage is given over to earnest discussion of sexual politics that the overall effect is like sitting through a semester's worth of transgender studies. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Empty details pile up, awful performance art is doled out, talking heads are intermittently identified, and the late Brandon Teena is evoked to little real purpose. Read full review

Noel Murray

Becomes hard going the longer Baur stretches out the parade of narcissists, all spouting received wisdom, cultural clichés, and bad poetry. Read full review

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