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Dressed in Blue
Berlinale Classics 2025
© Video Mercury Films
It is 1983 in Madrid, and six dazzling ladies of the night are plying their trade in fur, stockings and not much else along the Calle de Jorge Manrique – until police cars with flashing lights cordon off the street and haul the six trans women away … “We are high-class whores!” At a brunch with a light mood, they talk in front of the camera – about their experiences as performers and prostitutes, about marginalisation and repressive laws, about their youth and the discovery that they were trapped in the wrong body. The film delves into their everyday lives. It accompanies them amid their families, trying on hip pads and waxing away their hair, getting hormone treatments and breast augmentation. Dressed in Blue is a provocative, seminal classic of queer Spanish cinema. It is hard to imagine the films of Pedro Almodóvar without the ground it broke first. It also transcended formal filmmaking boundaries, combining staged scenes and documentary footage.
The restoration was undertaken from the picture and sound negatives. The colour correction drew on reference material from the late director Antonio Giménez-Rico (1938–2021).
by Antonio Giménez-Rico (Director, Screenplay)
with Loren Arana, Renée Amor, Nacha Sánchez, Eva Pérez, Tamara Muñoz, Josette Ruiz Orejón, Arturo González Spain 1983 Spanish 99' Colour Documentary form | World premiere of the digitally restored version

With

  • Loren Arana (Lorenzo)
  • Renée Amor (René)
  • Nacha Sánchez (José Antonio)
  • Eva Pérez (Francisco)
  • Tamara Muñoz (Juan)
  • Josette Ruiz Orejón (José)
  • Arturo González

Crew

Director Antonio Giménez-Rico
Screenplay Antonio Giménez-Rico
Cinematography Teo Escamilla
Editing José Antonio Rojo
Sound Design Enrique Molinero
Sound Bernardo Menz
Producers Bernardo Fernández, Monica Del Bosco, Baltasar Sangrigoberto

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Video Mercury Films

Madrid, Spain

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