FAIRYTALE: Trans Comedy Blends 1950s America With A Search for Identity
An Italian language comedy-drama set in 1950s suburban America is not the first place you’d think to find an examination of trans identity. Sebastiano Mauri‘s new film Fairytale, based on the play written by his partner Filippo Timi, who stars in the central role, is a luridly-coloured and melodramatic exploration of the search for one’s own self in a world so rigidly functioning through the almost concrete gender roles of that time period.
