So Pretty
LGBTQ+ Voices
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1h 23m
Leaving December 1
Directed by Jessica Dunn Rovinelli | 83 mins | 2019
Two young queer couples in New York City—transgender artist Tonia and her American academic boyfriend Franz; transwoman musician Erika and her political radical transmasculine partner Paul—find their daily lives gradually merging with the action of a novel, So schön, written in 1982 by Ronald M. Schernikau, in Rovinelli’s warm, entrancing, blissed-out film, which depicts a loving community of mutual care barricading itself against an increasingly hostile world.
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