Other Than Entertaining, It’s Difficult To Say Exactly What ‘Vera’ Is Trying To Do

Point to ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ or any number of similar entertainments as precedent, but ‘Vera’ is a slipperier creature in terms of its blurring of distinctions.

Via B4 Films and MoMA
Vera Gemma in 'Vera.' Via B4 Films and MoMA

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s ‘Vera’
Museum of Modern Art
August 9-15

There are two moments toward the beginning of “Vera,” the new film from Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, that are, to put it mildly, revealing. The first occurs during a scene in which the title character, Vera Gemma, stops at a bar for a quick drink. After some chit-chat with the bartender, she states that, with age, trans-women have become her ideal of feminine beauty. The woman serving drinks, who is considerably younger than Vera, responds with a look that is difficult to decipher — a mixture, let’s say, of bemusement and empathy.

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