Belgian dancer Victor Polster delivers a breathtaking, star-making performance that dominates the screen. Like a dance of despair. The film manages to film with respect. With enlivening performances and thoughtful filmmaking.

Victor Polster is brilliant as the graceful and beautiful Lana. Beautifully narrated and visually impressive, shocking even at some point. A film about Lara, a transgender woman, with a carefully presented informational side of medical and psychological detail. The film’s emotional climax, at which a dysphoric and depressed Lara injures her genitals with scissors, is both harrowing and a touch confounding.