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November 30, 1996 | 11:00PM PT Emanuel Levy
Baillie Walshs Mirror, Mirror is a grimly disturbing documentary that probes the life of Consuela Cosmetic, a black transsexual who died of AIDS in March l996, during the films post-production. Offering an uncompromisingly candid look, docu demystifies such relevant issues as gender, sex and daily survival as they pertain to a deviant minority thats often misunderstood and misrepresented in the media. Though laced with humor, overall downbeat tone, along with a gruesome onscreen operation of breast removal, might restrict theatrical potential, but docu should be shown in festivals and other venues open to challenging nonfiction fare.
Born in l958, as Floyd William Bradford, Consuela Cosmeti...