Renée: Los Angeles Film Fest Review
5:15 PM 6/19/2011 by Kirk Honeycutt
An inconclusive yet nevertheless captivating look at the life of the world's most famous transsexual athlete
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ren-e-los-angeles-film-203165Eric Drath's documentary explores the life of transsexual tennis star Renée Richards before and after her 1975 gender reassignment surgery.
Renée, Eric Drath's documentary about transsexual tennis star Renée Richards and her battle to play as a woman in the 1977 U.S. Open, is as fascinating as it is frustrating. Made for ESPN Films and shown in the current Los Angeles Film Fest prior to broadcast later this year, the film brings you up-to-date on a personality who once dominated headlines but has now largely faded from public view.
Drath tries to get to the bottom of two people, Richard Raskin, who was born in 1934 into a comfortable upper middle-class existence, and Renée — "French for 're-born,' " she reminds — following Raskin's gender reassignment surgery in 1975. It's fair to say both remain an enigma.
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A faulty documentary on transsexual tennis star
By Kirk Honeycutt
Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:16pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/22/us-film-renee-idUSTRE75L08120110622LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Renee," Eric Drath's documentary about transsexual tennis star Renee Richards and her battle to play as a woman in the 1977 U.S. Open, is as fascinating as it is frustrating.
