This highly depressing — and extremely fascinating
— feature-length documentary is just now hitting the circuit here in Berlin. Although I do do subtitling, I didn't
do the subtitles for Julia, so I don't have to apologize for any of the typos or grammar mistakes seen in
the trailer, but back in 2013 I did translate various press releases and proofread some of the film festival applications.
About the film JULIA
"A tale of passion, humiliation and loneliness, of desperation and turmoil. What exactly would drive a young male art student to leave his home in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and reappear as a young woman selling her body on the streets of Berlin, in sweaty back rooms, and on the sticky seats of a sex cinema? For over ten years the photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier has accompanied and documented the socially unconventional life of the now 30-year-old transsexual Julia K. — streetwalker, outlaw and nonconformist. 'I can't say that I'm a woman, but I'm also not a man. I'm something... I'm a creation of God, but a warped creation of God. God wasn't paying attention when I was born,' says Julia about herself. [...]"
"A tale of passion, humiliation and loneliness, of desperation and turmoil. What exactly would drive a young male art student to leave his home in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and reappear as a young woman selling her body on the streets of Berlin, in sweaty back rooms, and on the sticky seats of a sex cinema? For over ten years the photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier has accompanied and documented the socially unconventional life of the now 30-year-old transsexual Julia K. — streetwalker, outlaw and nonconformist. 'I can't say that I'm a woman, but I'm also not a man. I'm something... I'm a creation of God, but a warped creation of God. God wasn't paying attention when I was born,' says Julia about herself. [...]"
For an English-language review of the documentary, go here The Huffington Post.
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