Lemebel (2019)

6.6/10 • 96 min • Documentary

Overview

Pedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas, stilettos and a sharp tongue, he staged revolutionary performances that defied the era’s terror, he said what no one wanted to hear in a homophobic, repressed and militarized country.

Cast

Pedro Lemebel

Self (archive footage)

Tevo Díaz

Self

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