
Fernando, a.k.a. Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance sex-change surgery. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman, but in Milan is instead transformed into Princesa, a mysterious figure of allure. When she meets Gianni, a straight-laced, married businessman who falls in love with her. It all seems too good to be true...and it is.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fernando, a.k.a. Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance sex-change surgery. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman, but in Milan is instead transformed into Princesa, a mysterious figure of allure. When she meets Gianni, a straight-laced, married businessman who falls in love with her. It all seems too good to be true...and it is.
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| VarietyDavid RooneyA thoughtful, restrained, refreshingly nonjudgmental melodrama that reflects on interesting questions regarding sexuality, identity and self-acceptance. |
| Film ThreatRon WellsThe final result becomes a search not for a knight in shining armor, but one of acceptance for one's own identity. |
| Miami HeraldMarta BarberA sympathetic look at what it's like to be a Brazilian transsexual prostitute working in Milan. |
| New Times (L.A.)David EhrensteinThe well-made Princesa is daring, for it ends on an upbeat note in circumstances that are traditionally treated otherwise. |
| IFilmDave WhiteDeliberately non-gritty but still humane and loving in its depiction of people who don't fit into traditional categories of male/female and whore/john. |
| Boxoffice MagazineTim CogshellIt's all quite the soap opera, made all the more melodramatic because it's a quasi-true story. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineWith its warm humour and gritty realism, it's like a combination of the two extremes in the prostitute genre: Nights of Cabiria meets Pretty Woman! |
| The New York TimesDana StevensIt could easily have become either prurient or moralistic, but Mr. Goldman's stance is that of a sympathetic observer, and his style combines ground-level realism with a touch of Almodóvarian extravagance. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonA neo-realist fairy tale that charms without losing sight of its key themes of exploitation and truth to ones self. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxThis raw and raunchy drama from director Henrique Goldman offers what few feature films have ever bothered to attempt: a realistic, wholly sympathetic look at the lives of transgendered prostitutes. |