The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
About this movie
- Synopsis
- A fictional story serves as the foundation of this pseudo-documentary concerning a Filipina lady-boy prostitute who longs to explore Paris and find a successful soul mate who can make all of her wildest dreams come true....
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- Director(s)
- Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
- Distributor(s)
- Regent Releasing
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 80 min.
Critic Reviews
Queen Raquela's plotty elements don't always work: The acting in the story-driving scenes sometimes comes off as amateurish, and the circumstances that send Rios halfway around the world seem contrived. But de Fleur gets an astonishingly good performance from Stefan C. Schaefer.Read the full review
Their film is a rarity in that Rios emerges as a vibrant, reflective woman, an individual who refuses to be defined by her transsexuality.Read the full review
The great strength of the film is that it is difficult to know where cinema verite leaves off and fiction begins.Read the full review
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Film review: The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
09/25/08 Icelandic documentarian Olaf de Fleur openly blends fact and fiction in The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela , the partially true story of Filipino transsexual Raquela Rios, who drifts from prostitution to the more lucrative realm of Internet "ladyboy porn," then winds up moving to Europe when one of her patrons propositions her via e-mail. | The A.V. Club