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- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 42 m
- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Gabriel Baur
Written By: Gabriel Baur
- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 42 m
- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 42 m
Venus Boyz
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Summary A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Gabriel Baur
Written By: Gabriel Baur
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
An utterly fascinating, beautifully crafted exploration of the world of drag kings -- women who dress, perform and/or live as men.
Baur's doc earnestly -- if not altogether adroitly -- examines masculinity as a performance, demonstrating that biology is not destiny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Becomes hard going the longer Baur stretches out the parade of narcissists, all spouting received wisdom, cultural clichés, and bad poetry.
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Production Company
Clockwise Productions,
ONIX Filmproduction,
Teleclub AG,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Release Date Aug 22, 2003
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
