‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Review: A Chilean Drama About HIV and Transgender Romance

Set during the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, Diego Céspedes’ gentle, funny, passionate, and occasionally absurdist debut drama packs an enormous emotional punch. Following a commune of transgender women in a north Chilean desert in 1982, “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” binds real-world oppression and superstition with hints of grace verging on magical realism, […]