This was an interesting movie. Even thought I felt like ti went on too long. And when I researched about the main character Lily I found several errors in the film. Lily underwent four operations, not two. And Lily's former wife married an Italian diplomat and died penniless after he went through most of their savings. In the film it shows her by his side with an Art dealer as he dies. It is a very emotional scene. But it isn't true. The real Gerda found out about Lily's death while she was in Morocco with her new husband. Like the story of Lily, the film seems to play into the sensationalism of the story.
The film reaches it's most intense periods when Lily goes to a ball dressed as a woman. After the ball she wants to become a woman. After years of living secretly as Lily she finally gets in touch with a doctor who is performing surgeries to make men into women. I believe Lily was the first to get such a surgery. Tragically Lily died about thirty days after her last surgery.
The film is very tender and heart rendering. I didn't know much about the transgender movement in this country or Europe or anywhere else. After the film I could really emphasize with Lily and people like her.
I was taken in with the story, but I thought it could have been better. And more factually accurate.
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