{"id":5274,"date":"2023-08-12T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T12:29:22","slug":"paloma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/paloma\/","title":{"rendered":"Paloma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer: Paloma (2022) - English subtitles\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGkeo2iq8Fo?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>When a pre-op transexual woman announces that she wants to marry her boyfriend in a traditional Catholic church wedding, she&#8217;s called foolish and unrealistic for thinking that such a ceremony would be possible in the small, conservative rural Brazilian community where she lives. <\/p>\n<p>Even her loving beau thinks the idea is ludicrous and tries to discourage her from pursuing the idea. <\/p>\n<p>But Paloma&#8217;s determined to follow through on her plan, no matter what the cost, either financially or in terms of public reaction. <\/p>\n<p>In writer-director Marcelo Gomes&#8217;s latest, the filmmaker presents a fictionalized version of a fact-based story that has its genuinely moving moments of happiness and disappointment, though the narrative feels padded at times, incorporating incidents that don&#8217;t quite make sense and that, regrettably, bear out the concerns of those who tried to dissuade the would-be bride. <\/p>\n<p><em>Paloma <\/em>has frequently been compared to another Latin American trans-oriented release, the Oscar-winning drama <em>A Fantastic Woman<\/em> (2017), though that film has it all over this production, one that tries hard to tell a compelling and convincing story but that ultimately comes up short.<\/p>\n<h6>Drama<br \/>\nBrazil, Portugal (Portuguese) 1h 44min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/paloma2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5275\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a pre-op transexual woman announces that she wants to marry her boyfriend in a traditional Catholic church wedding, she&#8217;s called foolish and unrealistic for thinking that such a ceremony would be possible in the small, conservative rural Brazilian community where she lives. Even her loving beau thinks the idea is ludicrous and tries to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/paloma2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}