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Transsexual singer Mabel (José Pecina) has long left her hometown, a
smalltown with a rich transsexual community, to seek success in the big
city, even if it has always given her the feeling he turned her back on
everybody who loved her, especially her best friend Daniela ... and now
Daniela has been found tied up and murdered, with 27 stab wounds in the
back. Mabel comes back home, where she's welcomed with open arms, first to
find the killer, often accompanied by her friend Darina (Juan Carlos
Medellin), and then to at least find closure, as everything she bumps into
in her hometown is a trip down memory lane. It's a slow healing process,
and the one person who finally helps her is Modesto (Luis Alberti), the
cabbie who has driven her and Darina around when they were looking for
clues - as unsuccessful as that might have been. Somehow she has taken a
liking to Modesto, and he to her as well, and they soon become a couple.
Mabel also decides to give a comeback (or come-home) performance at the
club she started out at, after which Modesto promises her a big surprise
... but Modesto has a dark secret ... Carmin Tropical is
a very sentimental yet completely uncheesy little film, and one that uses
the transgender community not as a fancy backdrop to re-tell a tried and
true story butpresents them as the most normal people in the world (which
they of course are), soon making the viewer forget about gender boundaries
at all, while at the same time letting one dive into their world with very
much love and understanding. That said, the film tends to be a bit
slow-moving at times and spends too much time on lead José Pecina just
looking nowhere in particular, melancholy in the eyes. But at the same
time, it does a good job piecing together a puzzle that is revealed to
even be a puzzle only towards the end, and the ending, and how and when it
ends, truly pack a punch!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
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love and death and everything in between,
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