Trans women are women, deserving of all the respect and rights of their cis counterparts. That reality is conveyed poignantly in “Woman Of,” from Polish directors Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, a sprawling, lyrical, and sensitive journey of a woman becoming her true self.
While it occasionally bags at the seams, spending time meandering down inconsequential tangents bereft of purpose, the film’s characters are acted with such nuanced specificity that even at two hours and 20 minutes, “Woman Of” is a never-tiring portrait of gender and sexuality told across 45 years of Poland. We begin in the 1970s and move through communism, independence, and Covid, but society still largely languishes in the bureaucratic hell that awaits Polish LGBTQ+ people seeking lives without discrimination, to marry who they please, or to be legally recognized for their gender.
Aniela Wesoly, or Andrej as her parents named her, has spent her whole life in...
While it occasionally bags at the seams, spending time meandering down inconsequential tangents bereft of purpose, the film’s characters are acted with such nuanced specificity that even at two hours and 20 minutes, “Woman Of” is a never-tiring portrait of gender and sexuality told across 45 years of Poland. We begin in the 1970s and move through communism, independence, and Covid, but society still largely languishes in the bureaucratic hell that awaits Polish LGBTQ+ people seeking lives without discrimination, to marry who they please, or to be legally recognized for their gender.
Aniela Wesoly, or Andrej as her parents named her, has spent her whole life in...
- 9/8/2023
- by Leila Latif
- Indiewire
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