Thailand's indie filmmaker laureate Apichatpong Weerasethakul startles the world yet again. He follows his boldly experimental and sublime features Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) and the Cannes prize-winning Blissfully Yours (2002) 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. Called upon by the Thai government to investigate a suspicious cache of money, Iron Pussy infiltrates a mansion as a maid and discovers a forbidden love. Based on a series of short videos by San Francisco Art Institute alumnus-and Iron Pussy himself-Michael Shaowanasai, this instant 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 earlier works.