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'Other Angels' gets marks for bravery with Turkish transgender film

Started by Shana A, December 25, 2010, 07:30:05 AM

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December 25, 2010, 07:30:05 AM
'Other Angels' gets marks for bravery with Turkish transgender film

Friday, December 24, 2010
EMRAH GÜLER
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=a-candid-portrayal-of-transgender-community-2010-12-23

Director, writer, producer Emre Yalgın's debut feature, 'Teslimiyet' (Other Angels), is a brave attempt to shed light on the lives of the transgender community in Istanbul – since such women are usually subjected to one-dimensional stereotypes. While the transgender characters and actors impress, the film fails when the straight characters walk in

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"Other Angels" is the first feature movie to take a candid look at the lives of the transgender community in Istanbul since 1993's "Dönersen Islık Çal" (Whistle If You Come Back). The heavy virtual traffic was thanks to those sensitive about the tragic lives of transgender people in Turkey. Here was a chance to make transgender people more visible, a chance to watch them as multidimensional characters as opposed to the simplified and unfair stereotypes they were accustomed to being depicted with.
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