Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date2004-03-19
Languagees
Runtime1h 45m
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue$40,266,982
Production
El Deseo
Overview
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Principal Cast
22 credited
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