A Fantastic Woman

2017 • 103 minutes

About this movie

Marina and Orlando are in love and planning their future, when one night Orlando suddenly falls ill and passes away. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, Marina is treated with suspicion by authorities and with disdain by his family. She is forbidden to attend his funeral and thrown out of the apartment they shared. Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando’s family, her sexual identity is a perversion. So she must battle the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become the woman she is now – a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic.

Ratings and reviews

It describes and shows how cruel the deceased's loved ones can be! Unfortunately, a loved ones death brings out the worse in people. When my fiancé died in 1992, his family locked me out of the house, kept the things he had given me; his ex-wife even opened our joint bank account mail! They did have a daughter together! They sweated me and hounded me about his Mercedes Benz, which I was to give to them, and did, a week later. It was an emotionally difficult and painful time for me! 💔😭

Simply put, I am ashamed of the reviews I have read about this movie. The names and judgements are significant and denotes rigid and group mind ethos. The story itself could be between any couple of whatever cultural, racial or gender identity and the same thing would be true. Do we allow the family of the one we loved to push us away? Do we allow their opinion to take away our personal value and power? Do we allow an antiquated and immoral action take hold again in this county? I postulate that we are better than this and no matter your religion, culture, political affiliations it is time to really weigh out are we not all homosapiens?

A hard movie to watch, emotionally speaking, but oh so worth going through. Beautifully acted, painfully portrayed. In a word: Fantastic.