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pay attention to the woman and carefully
ignore each other, the film would have passed
Mora (Bemarda Pagés) and their attempts to
with
the desired R. But this pivotal scene in
drug Mora’s visiting brother, Felipe (Javier
the movie does quite the opposite. Egoyan
Lombardo), and seduce him into impregnat
made some edits but wouldn’t cut this scene,
ing Roberta. They try everything in their
and thanks to the MPAA, this may be a rare
arsenal—skimpy dresses and lingering caress
chance
to see the film in Egoyan’s near
es from Roberta, drugged drinks—but con
preferred cut.
fused Felipe spurns them all; despite his
Viewers who like reality more than fiction
attraction to Roberta, he’s expecting his girl
will find much to love in two of this year’s doc
friend and a business partner at their apart
umentaries. A third one, a comedy perform
ment any minute. Complications ensue when
ance of the increasingly unnecessary Margaret
the partner arrives and gets dead drunk, and
Cho, is more dicey. Cho’s first two filmed per
the girlfriend, an uptight Christian, learns—
formances were strong, vital and above all
along with Felipe—of the girls’ “troubling
funny works, with the comedian brilliantly
lifestyle.” Running gags of Felipe’s job as a
describing her experiences as a TV star, her
“turkey inseminator” in Patagonia, voyeur
fag-hagdom and her mother, with prickly polit
neighbors and the business partner stuffed
ical commentary thrown in. In this fourth film,
into a cupboard bring some laughs, and the
Margaret Cho: Assassin, she’s drawing on a
actors make the most of their characters. But
dry well. The film opens and closes with irritat
the trope of the women’s lack of handy skills
(Felipe is constantly fixing
things in the apartment) and
their increasingly desperate
efforts to get him in bed
become tiresome and annoying
after a while. And it doesn’t
help that the premise of El
Favor is a little too close to
Spike Lee’s horrendous She Hate
Me for comfort.
Perhaps rhe highest-profile
film of the fest is Atom Egoyan’s
Where the Truth Lies. Egoyan
frequently features gay content,
as in Exotica’s queer financial
investigator. Where the Truth Lies
An Argentinian rent boy blurs the line between reality and
riffs on the Hollywcxxl erotic
hallucination in Night Watch.
thriller genre with a gay twist. It’s
a multilayered, time-shifting
story about Vince Collins (Colin Firth) and
ing testimonials about how great and cutting-
Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon), a Dean Martin
edge Cho is. But most of her insights are no
and Jerry Lewis-type act from the ’50s, com
more interesting than those of anybody on the
plete with trashy comedy routines, heckling
street with a modicum of wit. They’re mostly
crowds and a telethon for polio. Problem is, the obvious political rants about how stupid and
act falls apart at the height of the guys’ fame in i evil George Bush and the Republicans are—
1957, when a dead girl turns up in their hotel
hardly news—along with the usual pandering
room, though neither man was charged. Fifteen commentary on queemess and racism. She
years later, a reporter who had appeared on
pauses too long for idolatrous whoOps and
their telethon is writing a biography of Vince
applause, which the brainless audience of fans
Collins and is delving into the mystery of the
provides in waves.
dead girl and the part Collins and Morris
AG is an acronym little known outside the
played in it. This intricately plotted film is well
band of “Aggressives”—butch lesbians who
acted and well worth seeing despite some con
identify with aggression—who created it.
fusing stretches. But it’s almost more interest
Daniel Peddle profiles this scene through six
ing for the off-screen drama of Egoyan’s un
different women in the bracing d<x:umentary
successful fight against an NC-17 rating. The
The Aggressives. Docs are only as good as the
homophobic Motion Picture Association of
life stories they showcase, and this is one of the
America, which determines film ratings, was
most effective I’ve seen in getting inside the
apparently unhinged by a brief scene of a man
heart of a small, marginalized community—in
man-woman ménage. Perhaps if Egoyan had
this case black, Asian and Latina gender
followed the pom formula in which two men
busters. Stereotypes of mean, mindless hutches
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