To Die like a Man

To Die like a Man Portuguese Morrer Como Um Homem is a 2009 Portuguese drama film directed by Joo Pedro Rodrigues, produced by the production company Rosa Filmes.

It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didnt make the final shortlist.Critical reception has been mixed. Variety.coms Leslie Felperin stated that he disliked the films excessive running time 138, that too much of the time is taken up by music and singing, feeling that the movie and storyline were unremarkable. However, the movie was voted Best Undistributed Film of 2009 in the Village Voices 10th Annual Film Critics Poll. A fabulously sad fable about a Fadosinging, poochpampering trannie growing old, To Die Like a Man is also a piece of lyrical, playful, unpredictable filmmaking, wrote film critic J. Hoberman. ........

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