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21/01/2021 - Claus Drexel signs his name to a sociological, humanist and intimate documentary which lends a voice to the transsexual sex workers of Paris’s Bois de Boulogne We each have our own destiny and if we’re born with an adverse fate, we have to make do. In the golden-brown light which illuminates the autumn leaves, on the edge of a lake where ducks and swans paddle peacefully across the water, a woman sings
O fado de cada um. We’re in the Bois de Boulogne on the Parisian border, where German filmmaker
Claus Drexel (who lives and works in France) decided to film, in his characteristic documentary style (face-on, with a camera positioned at the same height as the women who divulge their lives), a gallery of individuals who inhabit the margins: sex workers - transvestites or transsexuals - who have made the Wood their second home and have turned their profession (which is often, though not always, resorted to in the wake of agonising adversity) into a space where th