Time
19:45to 21:30
Location
Whitby Colisium TheatreVictoria Place
Whitby YO21 1EZ
UK
Contact
Nigel StatonPhone: 01947 880093
Description
Whitby Film SocietypresentsA Fantastic WomanChile Director: Sebastian LelloMarina is a young transgender woman in Santiago; she is a waitress and club singer and is in a very happy relationship with an older man. Orlando is in his 50s, handsome, divorced with a grown-up son. In the middle of the night, after a sumptuous romantic meal, Orlando wakes up next to Marina feeling desperately ill and disoriented. Poor panicky Marina prepares to drive him to hospital but leaves him alone outside on the landing of his apartment building while she flusters about getting her things. He dazedly staggers forward and falls down the stairwell, fatally worsening the situation while sustaining bruises that mean the police need to get involved. At a single stroke, Marina’s whole existence is pathologised and criminalised—her very existence is on trial. “This is a brilliant film, a richly humane, moving study of someone keeping alive the memory and the fact of love.”