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My Dearest Senorita (Spanish: Mi querida señorita) is a 1972 Spanish film directed by Jaime de Armiñán. A romantic drama on the subject of sex change and intersexualism, it was the first Spanish film that talked about sexual orientation, which was a taboo subject in Spain during Franco's regime. [1] The film was nominated for the Academy ...
Jul 2, 2019 · Jaime Armiñán directed My Dearest Señorita in a context of profound social transition in Spain. Miraculously evading censorship, the film constructed a delicious and grotesque parody of the falsities and deformations brought about by Francoist education. It attracted international attention and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best ...
Feb 17, 1972 · My Dearest Senorita: Directed by Jaime de Armiñán. With José Luis López Vázquez, Julieta Serrano, Antonio Ferrandis, Enrique Ávila. A 43-year-old woman living in a small town discovers that she is actually a man.
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- Romance, Drama
- Jaime de Armiñán
- 1972-02-17
MY DEAREST SEÑORITA. Directed by Jaime de Armiñán and Annette Kennerley. Spain/UK, 1972/98, 1h 40min, 35mm/DCP, In Spanish with English Subtitles. Queer Cinema: Lost & Found. An aging spinster’s life is turned upside down by the revelation that she’s actually a man—and life doesn’t get any easier after transitioning.
My Little Senorita is more than fifty years old, it was made under a fascist dictatorship (Franco's Spain), and it deals with a protagonist who was assigned the female gender at birth and has lived as a woman until she is in her forties, when a doctor tells her she is actually a man, which leads to her presenting to society as male. Given these mere facts, I expected a ham-fisted and ...
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- Jaime de Armiñán
This was the first Spanish film to talk about sexual orientation, which was a taboo subject during Franco’s regime. Consider it a predecessor to some of Almodovar’s film dramas, with its extreme characters, suffering, provincialism; in the case of My Dearest Señorita, there’s a very light touch of all that.
Summaries. A 43-year-old woman living in a small town discovers that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society? Adela is a 43-year-old single woman who lives in a small town with her maid Isabelita and supports herself by sewing. Despite having an ungraceful physique, Adela sees herself as ...
