Doc about the Bella Vista club, originally a sports (soccer) clubhouse and
team. The building, having fallen into some disrepair, was bought up by a woman
who made it into a nightclub with transvestite barflies who dance and flirt with
male clientele.
Although for the most part the bar seems okay, neighbors
and the now middle-aged soccer players petition a judge to turn the club back
over to the soccer team, who have formed a board to oust the transvestites. It
appears they dislike the sexual orientations of the Bella Vista's employees
rather than have a real, legal complaint against them.
A couple of the
transvestites are interviewed. One is married to a man and has adopted the son
of a woman who couldn't afford to keep him. The birth mother appears still
distressed that she had to make this decision, but the film shows the adoptive
mother is a loving and doting parent. The film does not dig into how the birth
mother feels about another woman raising her child (although she does have other
children she kept), much less a transvestite. The transvestite's husband is not
shown or interviewed at all. She later reveals that she had a problem with a
silicone implant.
Another barfly seems to want romance and fantasizes
about a long-term relationship with a particular guest, even coercing a young
bar patron into playacting as the guest. The young guy falls for her but his
friend makes fun of him. The bar owner berates her for spending too much time
with the young guy and not spending more time with other men who want her
attention.
Prostitution at the club is suspected by the soccer guys but
the film does not show any evidence of this.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
The Pope's Toilet
From the title, I thought this film would be a comedy in the vein of Big Night, where the community anticipate the Pope's visit and doesn't happen. It is an Uruguayan drama about one family with big dreams.
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