Capsule Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Applez-Moi Madame/Mix Up’
France, 1986, 115 minutes , 5:30 p.m . Documentarian Francoise Romance confronts seemingly absurd material with a camera quiet and still as an Erik Satie gymnopede. Here, two British babies scrambled at birth and raised by socially dissimilar families; and a French provincial transsexual, Ovida, living with a son and wife of 40 years. Ovida--resistance fighter, radical, prolific writer--seems an awful poet, but Romand’s quiet sympathy evokes a touching humor in his/her Cocteau-ish posturing. RECOMMENDED.
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