The Marriage
Director Aldo Garay
Countries Uruguay, Argentina
Duration 72 min
Synopsis
The film tells the story of Julia Brian, an UYan transsexual and Ignacio González. It is a story of love and friendship. They met on Christmas Eve twenty years ago in a square, both feeling lonely. Julia is now 65 years old. Oscar Alberto is the name he used until his teenage years. He began to cross-dress, going by the name of Julia. In 1993, the UYan government – after rigorous physical and psychological tests - approves and carries out the sex reassignment operation. The second man-to-woman sex reassignment operation ever to take place in the country. Paradoxically, Julia had to wait till 2005 for the UYan State to acknowledge her gender identity. Ignacio is 75 years old and one can see how hard his life has been. How he somehow survived with casual jobs. How he drank excessively. How he lived in the streets. This is the story of “The Marriage”. It is a simple story of ordinary people who, through a stroke of luck, found each other at a public square.
The film tells the story of Julia Brian, an UYan transsexual and Ignacio González. It is a story of love and friendship. They met on Christmas Eve twenty years ago in a square, both feeling lonely. Julia is now 65 years old. Oscar Alberto is the name he used until his teenage years. He began to cross-dress, going by the name of Julia. In 1993, the UYan government – after rigorous physical and psychological tests - approves and carries out the sex reassignment operation. The second man-to-woman sex reassignment operation ever to take place in the country. Paradoxically, Julia had to wait till 2005 for the UYan State to acknowledge her gender identity. Ignacio is 75 years old and one can see how hard his life has been. How he somehow survived with casual jobs. How he drank excessively. How he lived in the streets. This is the story of “The Marriage”. It is a simple story of ordinary people who, through a stroke of luck, found each other at a public square.