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Reviews: December 2005 Archives
Midlife crisis indeed: "Transamerica" and "Far Side of the Moon"
By Alison Willmore on 12/02/2005
"Desperate Housewives" is a grand camp feat, a show about female archetypes as dreamed up by gay men that has won over a nation that's still supposedly hypersensitive about sexuality. And "Desperate Housewives" haunts "Transamerica" (for all that the show hadn't yet taken off when the film was being made) not the least because it's stars Housewife Felicity Huffman, but also because the film seems like the logical extension of the series — dropping the veil of surreal suburban narrative and skipping straight to a man in the last stages of attempting to reinvent himself as a woman. Huffman's getting... MORE »
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