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In All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar leverages hyperreality through a camp lens to narrate a story that is as rich in theatricality as it is in the nuanced emotionality of the dream.

There are mythical moments in Almodóvars All About My Mother. We are meant to register repetition in the story as something wonderfully strange, a connection across the chasm of impossibility.

This is the one director I *really* hope I never have to unstan.

Take another look Chris Azzopardi | ScreenQueen In Paris Is Burning, a strut is a defiant act, an exertion of suppressed power. In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the landmark documentary was filmed, these moves couldn’t be showcased just anywhere. Today the same is true, as the call to end violence against trans people and to confront transphobia persists. Given the number of trans people killed since the doc was released (and the surge of trans murders currently making headlines), that call se...