Something Must Break

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Audience Member a tender "real" story also perfect axample why transgenders should play transgender roles. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Even though there are more and more films about transgenders, "Something Must Break" (the title refers to a song by Joy Division) deploys arguments and a beauty that go beyond what we are used to see. Saga Becker performs brilliantly in this first role (no wonder why the director took two years to find her actress) that she plays with tenderness and melancholy. Despite a cold scenery and a gloomy Stockholm, the warmth of the characters and the intimacy that they build together has something charming and even magical. The camera focus on the bubble in which the characters live and it follows their evolution -natural but sometimes abrupt - on their quest to get what they desire. The purity from the tenderness scenes is literally mesmerising and "Something Must Break" brilliantly avoids the pitfalls inherent to LGTB films. Far from the colours and extravagance of Araki's movies, this movie is quite rough but still offers some crazy scenes, an insanity that stem from Andreas and Ellie's passion. Because we never know if this passion is made of love or not, but the director wants to make the viewer understand that the goal is not to know or to see it but to feel it. Full review on our blog : https://losindiscretos.org/english/something-must-break-2014-ester-martin-bergsmark/ Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Awesome film, acting and story. Young girl, trapped in a boys body, trying to find love, acceptances and the life within to also be on the outside. The norm is.... punk is not dead... :D in Sweden at least Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member The dialogue bogs it down from time ti time, but at its core Something Must Break is a beautifully fluid film about gender identity and sexuality that has no agenda other than to impart that people are complicated and that's what makes us interesting and worth while. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member A rare decent exploration from the perspective of androgynous. Sympathizing enough, most probably due to the same background of the director. Only the directing + narrative are way too sloppy & obscure, sometimes too pretentiously showing-off with those meaningless slow motion scenes. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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