"The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo": a Queer Tale that Rewrites the Codes of the Western

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A coming-of-age story on the edge of the marvelous, the endearing first film by Chilean director Diego Céspedes follows a young girl raised in a queer cabaret in the middle of the desert during the AIDS epidemic of the 80s.

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This Wednesday, February 18, France released the first feature film by young director Diego Céspedes. Between western, tragedy and comedy, he made a fable of great beauty on a community of trans and transvestites that fought to exist, in the Chile of Pinochet, during the AIDS years.