MAN TO MAN at Cine-Rebis London

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MAN TO MAN
Dir: John Maybury | UK, 1992 | 72 mins

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Introduced by Producer James Mackay.

Featuring Tilda Swinton in a tour de force one-woman performance, Man to Man is a reworking of East German dramatist Manfred Karge's play about a woman who experiences 50 years of German history in the guise of a working man.

Fearing destitution, Ella Gericke (Swinton), a roughly angelic young woman, assumes the identity of her deceased husband, Max, and continues life as a crane operator in Weimar Germany. With a rabbit's foot in her britches as an ersatz penis, Ella-now-Max takes to the world of men, the 'beer and schnapps and bugger all else'.

Swinton portrays over a dozen characters, male and female. Filmmaker Sally Potter has said recently that she was impressed by the 'profound subtlety about the way she [Swinton] took on male body language and handled maleness and femaleness' which drew her to cast Swinton in her breakthrough role as Orlando.

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