Transfixed (Mauvais genres)(Bad Genres)(Gender Bias) (2004)
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9% of critics liked it
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47% of users liked it
(66 ratings)
A cross-dressing man allows himself to be used as bait to trap a killer in this crime-drama. Bo Ancelin (Robinson Stevenin) is a twentysomething man from Brussels who feels most comfortable dressing and living as a woman. Some might see Bo's lifestyle as a marked contrast to that of his father,… More A cross-dressing man allows himself to be used as bait to trap a killer in this crime-drama. Bo Ancelin (Robinson Stevenin) is a twentysomething man from Brussels who feels most comfortable dressing and living as a woman. Some might see Bo's lifestyle as a marked contrast to that of his father, a successful and well-regarded businessman, though it seems father has some secrets of his own after no-nonsense police detective, Paul Huysmans (Richard Bohringer), arrests him on charges of child molestation. While Bo bears his own scars from his upbringing, he's not eager to speak against his father in court, but before long both Bo and Huysmans have bigger fish to fry -- a serial killer is walking the streets of Brussels and choosing as his favored victims prostitutes and cross-dressers. When two of his friends are murdered by the killer, Bo decides he must step in to help catch the killer that Huysmans hasn't yet found on his own, though Bo soon falls into a dangerous position when he falls in love with Johnny (Stephane Metzger), a sullen and street-smart hustler who helps rent-boys find profitable assignations with older women. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Francis Girod
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 1, 2004 Wide
- Studio
- Picture This! Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
An absorbing mystery thriller.
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Dave Kehr, New York Times
[Girod's] film feels more like what one would see from the top of a double-decker tourist bus than the work of someone who has immersed himself in a sexual subculture and its particular values.
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S. James Wegg, JWR
Serial chiller a victim of overdone dénouement
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Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
What really sink the film are the script's reductive, outdated psychological implications ... and its clumsy melodramatics.
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David Noh, Film Journal International
Bo ... in Stévenin's smirky, callow performance often comes off as more irritating than sympathetic.
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Cast
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Richard Bohringer
as Paul Huysmans
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Robinson Stévenin
as Bo Ancelin
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Stephane Metzger
as Johnny
- Micheline Presle
- William Nadylam
- Frederic Pellegeay
- Ginette Garcin
- Stephane De Groodt
- Charlie Dupont
- Veronika Novac
- Marcel Dossogne
- Thibaut Corrion
- Veronica Novak
