Miss Rosewood, who likes to call herself a transgender terrorist, has a notorious act where she defecates on stage, sprays her bodily fluids over the audience after prancing around naked showing off her she/he body. The extreme nature of what she is prepared to do attracts an edgy celebrity crowd always desperate for the next best thing. At The Box a very exclusive NY theatre club Miss Rosewood has made Page 6 headlines by dosing Leonardo DiCaprio with a condom full of sperm and vomiting on Susan Sarandon. In her former life as a cisgender male he was married to his former therapist who talked on camera now about how their friendship remained after he wanted to transition. How celibate for a couple of decades, we see Rose preparing for breast implant surgery , which does not go smoothly at all. One of the saddest parts of the film is when Rose calls her very supportive father to break the news about the problems with her new breasts.
The director shot her film over a decade and leaves you with a feeling that Miss Rosewood’s stage antics are reaching their sell-by date, but possibly by now as she has undergone more surgery to feminise herself, that she’ll be ready for the next act in her life. The camera doesn’t shy away. It bears witness. It follows Rosewood through intimate transitions—surgical, emotional, spiritual—and documents how performance art becomes a survival mechanism, a scream of resistance, and a declaration of self. The film is interesting and it helps that the duration is just over an hour. It also does a good job of not taking sides or giving an opinion. It's for the viewers to watch and learn more about this person. (4.5/10)
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