Thailand’s indie filmmaker laureate Apichatpong Weerasethakul followed his Cannes prize-winning Blissfully Yours with this outrageously over-the-top musical Western featuring a transvestite secret agent on a James Bond–like undercover mission. A former go-go boy, Iron Pussy is a 7-Eleven clerk by day and a glamorous superheroine by night, aided by his motorcycle taxi–driving sidekick, Pew. Based on a series of short videos by San Francisco Art Institute alumnus—and Iron Pussy himself—Michael Shaowanasai, this camp classic fits in with Weerasethakul’s oeuvre, subsuming genres (and genders) as nonchalantly as the director blurred the boundaries between documentary and fiction in his other works.

—Taro Goto

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