“The Fabulous Ones” takes its name from a group of transgender female friends who, having reached middle age, reunite in the villa that witnessed their process of identity formation.
The reunion is occasioned by the unsealing of a letter written by one of them (Antonia, now deceased) to the others, in which she leaves them her possessions (the most precious one being their story itself) and addresses them a final request. Roberta Torre, a fiction film director with a fascination for the dynamics of disadvantaged or even marginal communities, indulges here in a game without rules, in which she playfully blends documentary and fiction, reality and its mise-en-scène, as well as the face and its mask: the group of friends plays their own roles, thus offering a profoundly subjective perspective, yet one that is all the more revelatory in regards to the past – and, by implication, the present – of the transgender community. (Liri Chapelan)