Over the weekend I found myself partaking of the delights offered by an International Film Festival, whilst visiting a friend in another city. We used the "eenie, meenie, miney, mo" method of film selection, which worked out quite well.
Friday evening we watched The Truth about Queen Raquela, which was based on true events surrounding Raquela, a Ladyboy living in Cebu City, Phillipines, who desires to go to Europe and make a new life for herself (and meet the man of her dreams). Not everything went quite to plan for her, but she acquitted herself with the utmost grace and seems a very warm-hearted, humorous person. We enjoyed it thoroughly.
Saturday we ended up seeing "811", a Singaporean musical about a Getai group called the Papaya sisters. The movie description gave us the idea it would be fluffy bubblegum with little real story - not at all. As well as being incredibly colourful and full of joy, there was a much darker side to the story which we didn't expect but found very welcome.
Two great films that I probably wouldn't normally go and see, but I'm glad I did.
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