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A Soap

2006 · 1h 45m · Unrated Drama, Romance
Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen

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Overview

32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbour of the trans woman Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. An assault, a new bed and some white curtains bring the two of them together and they end up as the main characters of their own turbulent love story.

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All reviews
55%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Fear of Flying never got made into a movie. But imagine a 21st century version transported to Denmark with a transsexual thrown in for added titillation, and you've got the gist of the amusing melodrama Soap.

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

Another week, another movie about a depressed transsexual hooker.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh

... the film is an anti-soap opera in the trappings of an old- fashioned sudsfest.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh

The idea that these characters are willing to fight like cats and dogs, and destroy each other and themselves, to avoid confronting their intense attraction to each other is totally convincing.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh

[The film takes] some of its cues from the soaps and melodramas the characters watch together and others from a realist tradition of considerable emotional heft.

Ben Walters, Time Out

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