Famed male Italian director tells Venice he was born a woman

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VENICE : Award-winning Italian director Emanuele Crialese revealed on Sunday that he had been born a woman as he presented his highly autobiographical movie 'L'Immensita', starring Penelope Cruz, at the Venice Film Festival.'L'Immensita' focuses on an Italian family growing up in 1970s Rome, where the eld

VENICE : Award-winning Italian director Emanuele Crialese revealed on Sunday that he had been born a woman as he presented his highly autobiographical movie"L'Immensita", starring Penelope Cruz, at the Venice Film Festival.

"I was born biologically a woman, but that does not mean that I don't have in me a huge part female character. That is probably the best part of me," he said, speaking publicly for the first time about his transition. In the Italian-language movie, Cruz's initially exuberant character buckles under the weight of her overbearing husband and troubled trio of children, all of whom carry the scars of living in an unhappy household.

 

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