{"product_id":"change-of-sex-us-import-blu-ray","title":"Change Of Sex (US Import BLU-RAY) Coming To Our Shelves October 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the claustrophobic final days of Franco's Spain, María José (Victoria Abril), a teenage trans girl, has always known who she is—even as her brutish father and a society built on dictatorship-era moral codes refuse to see it. Sent from her provincial home to the neon-stained cabarets of Barcelona as a punishment, she instead finds a clandestine freedom there: a community of trans women, drag performers, and outcasts orbiting the magnetic Bibí (Bibiana Fernández), whose mere existence is a quiet detonation. As María José steps into her own name and her own body, she must navigate predatory men, uncertain love, and the slow, defiant emergence of a self that four decades of dictatorship had tried to erase from the realm of the possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade by acclaimed auteur Vicente Aranda (\u003cem\u003eThe Blood Splattered Bride\u003c\/em\u003e) when Francoist censorship was crumbling, and just months before it was formally abolished,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChange of Sex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cem\u003eCambio de sexo\u003c\/em\u003e, 1977) is a landmark of trans representation in Spanish cinema—arriving the same year a Spanish court legally recognized a trans woman as female for the first time, as the country began to imagine lives it had spent forty years denying. The film features luminous, career-launching performances from future Almodóvar regulars Victoria Abril (\u003cem\u003eTie Me Up! Tie Me Down!\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHigh Heels\u003c\/em\u003e) and Bibiana Fernández (\u003cem\u003eKika\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaw of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e), whose presence here marks the prologue to a queer cinematic explosion to come. Shot with a radiant naturalism by Oscar-winning cinematographer Néstor Almendros (\u003cem\u003eDays of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e) in his only Spanish feature, and never before available on disc in North America, this restored, fully uncut high-definition presentation brings one of Aranda's most quietly radical works to Blu-ray for the very first time. Essential viewing for admirers of transgressive cinema, trans film history, and the rebellious culture of the Transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003edirected by: Vicente Aranda\u003cbr\u003estarring: Victoria Abril, Fernando Sancho, Bibiana Fernández, María Elías, Rafaela Aparicio, Lou Castel, Daniel Martín, Montserrat Carulla\u003cbr\u003e1977 \/ 113 min \/ 1.66:1 \/ Spanish DTS-HD MA 1.0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdditional info:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegion Free Blu-ray\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2K Restoration from original negative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal Spanish soundtrack with newly translated English subtitles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"An Act of Freedom\" - A new interview with actress María Elías\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Making the Invisible Visible\" - A new interview with Film Scholar María Adell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish subtitles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bizarro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45204502610120,"sku":"BZR-004","price":49.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/BZR-004_ChangeofSex_cover.jpg?v=1788315234","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/change-of-sex-us-import-blu-ray","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}