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theauteurs.com - 10/6/2009

NYFF 09: "To Die Like A Man" (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)

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It's a funny thing: A viewing experience as engrossing, exhilarating and frequently moving as Portuguese director Rodrigues' latest ought to resonate, and richly, on reflection. Instead, when contemplating the film, I tend to grow frustrated at the way its distinctive parts fail to ...

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reverseshot.com - 10/5/2009

To Die Like a Man

— reverseshot.com — With echoes of Jacques Nolot’s Before I Forget , the film is also a tough portrait of... aging queer, of the trials of living in a body torn between persistent desires and a growing rejection of itself. Where Rodrigues’s earlier works are built around ... (more) To Die Like a Man

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Some Came Running — ... If you (presuming you are a heterosexual male, or a lesbian) had Anouk Aimee as a girlfriend, wouldn't you be on your best behavior, so as to get the hell out of the insane asylum? Alas, since you ask, it was not, as it happens, so simple then, then being 1959, the year the great Georges Franju made his haunting debut feature La Tete contre les murs, the subject of today's Foreign Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs'. Also there today: my consideration of a NYFF selection, To Die Like A Man. Enjoy. ...