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Paper Dolls

Paper thin
Rating: 2.0 stars
September 6, 2006 11:53:07 AM

Tomer Heymann documents the lives of five Filipino transsexuals who moved to Israel after 2000 when the country closed its borders to Palestinian workers and invited foreigners to make up the resulting labor shortage. By day the fivesome work as caregivers in conservative suburbs of Tel Aviv; on their nights off they perform their drag-queen act as the Paper Dolls. Jan, Chiqui, Cheska, Giorgio, and Sally are engaging as they take advantage of Israel’s comparative cultural freedom, but Heymann fails to excavate below the surface of their day-to-day existence, to probe their outsider status, which is aggravated in the last 20 minutes of the film when Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians improves and it tries to expel the foreign workers. He had a rich subject to mine, but he doesn’t cash in, and the result is hollow and unemotional.
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I know all of them in Paper Dolls, and they are really great and very proffesional, this movie will shown the real world of the gays, they have a big contribution to the society,aside from being caregivers here in Israel, they give us joy,laugh,fun and they are very talented.All of them are very supportive to the community. Sad to say that one of the member "Sally" passed away and found dead by heart attack in DUBAI last week only.By:Yolly Lopez-Israel

POSTED BY yolly AT 12/04/07 11:09 AM
I know all of them in Paper Dolls, and they are really great and very proffesional, this movie will shown the real world of the gays, they have a big contribution to the society,aside from being caregivers here in Israel, they give us joy,laugh,fun and they are very talented.All of them are very supportive to the community. Sad to say that one of the member "Sally" passed away and found dead by heart attack in DUBAI last week only.By:Yolly Lopez-Israel

POSTED BY yolly AT 12/04/07 11:09 AM

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