Flora's Garment Bursting Into Bloom

This is real, tough, gritty New York just after 9/11 and before the pedestrian plazas in Times Square. A haplessly drunk writer who meets a transgender woman on the train and they hit it off after he visits her at her workplace at one of those old Times Square booths and I don't mean TKTS. Terry's wife just left him and Flora's involved with a shifty guy she was previously devoted to, that keeps coming in and out of her life . The two contrasting lives are played off one another in great fashion in this solid script by the writer and star Kevin Baggott. Although it treats dark subject matter there are many moments of lightness in this film that made me smile. The scene where they walk the mother is so beautiful in its spontaneity. At first you feel that they might be using each other as an escape but over the course of the film you can sense the love and fondness that they grew for each other during tumultuous times. The artistic collaboration between them became a wonderful fuse for their disparate worlds. Worlds that were violently hopeless and unsalvageable may have meaning again.

This movie has a lot a lot going for it. A lot of bravery on the part of the artistes, parts of the script are really brilliantly written, in fact my only reservation would be a matter of taste, cause what didn't work for me was the kind of stuff that stretches credulity yet in fact probably is based on something that really happened. Anyway I look forward to more from the writer director star and from the actress who played Flora. Definitely one of the 'festival film' standouts of the last few years. Should be picked up at least by TLA or something. Should not at all be languishing here with only one review. Problem is there is no A&F model in the film to put on the box I guess...