''Blue and Not So Pink'' (, released in the U.S. as ''My Straight Son'') is a 2012

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film written and directed by Miguel Ferrari in his directorial debut. The film won the

Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film The Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (), formerly the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (, 1987–2008) and the Goya Award for Best Hispanic American Film (, 2009–2010), is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national ...

at the

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in 2014, the first Venezuelan film to do so. The film deals with controversial issues in Venezuelan society: homophobic violence,

homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexu ...

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and

domestic violence Domestic violence is violence that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes r ...

. The film had its U.S. premiere on 25 June 2014 at the

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Plot

Diego is a photographer living in

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

. In the opening scene, he photographs a performance choreographed by his friend Delirio del Río, who is a transgender woman. Diego meets his partner Fabrizio in a restaurant, and they kiss. Diego's employee Perla Marina turns up late to work, making excuses to hide the domestic violence inflicted on her by her partner Iván. Diego has lunch with his family, where they display homophobic opinions, which are also seen in the TV programme hosted by Estrellita. Diego's son Armando returns to Caracas to live with Diego, after spending five years in Madrid with his mother. Their relationship is strained at first. Armando lacks confidence in his appearance. Shortly after Armando's arrival, Diego's partner Fabrizio is the victim of a homophobic attack by a gang led by Rasco, outside the Club 69 where Delirio is performing. Diego tries unsuccessfully to get Rasco arrested. In the aftermath of the attack, Diego, Armando, Delirio and Perla Marina come together. The four practice

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Arge ...

together to help Armando impress Laura, a girl he has met on the internet. After Fabrizio dies, Armando joins Diego to stand up to Rasco and his gang. They are attacked by the gang, but Delirio, in full stage make-up and high heels, scares the gang off with a warning shot. Diego, Armando, Delirio and Perla Marina take a road trip to Mérida to plant a tree for Fabrizio and for Armando to meet Laura at a tango dance. Perla Marina admits she is pregnant. On returning home, she finally stands up to Iván and decides to raise the baby alone. At the end of the film, a dancer at the club reveals he filmed the attack on Fabrizio on his phone. Rasgo is arrested. Diego becomes closer to his family, who accept his homosexuality. Armando returns to Madrid much more confident. Estrellita's TV show is replaced by 'Noches de Delirio'. Delirio delivers a monologue urging acceptance of difference.

Cast

* Guillermo García as Diego * Nacho Montes (aka Ignacio Montes González) as Armando * Hilda Abrahamz as Delirio del Río * Carolina Torres as Perla Marina * Alexander Da Silva as Racso * Sócrates Serrano as Fabrizio * Elba Escobar as Rocío *

Beatriz Valdés Beatriz Valdés Fidalgo (born May 12, 1963, in Havana) is a Cuban-Venezuelan actress. She was born in Cuba, where she studied drama and worked as an actress before she arrived to Venezuela as a guest at the Cinema Interamerican Forum in 1989. She ...

as Estrellita * Jose Roberto Diaz as Doctor * Aroldo Betancourt as Luis Fernando

References

External links

* *
Blue and Not So Pink
' at Cine Mestizo
Official Website
(in English)
Film's page at TLA Releasing
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blue and Not So Pink 2012 films 2012 comedy-drama films 2012 LGBTQ-related films 2012 directorial debut films Venezuelan comedy-drama films Spanish comedy-drama films Venezuelan LGBTQ-related films Spanish LGBTQ-related films 2010s Spanish-language films Spanish-language comedy-drama films Best Foreign Film in the Spanish Language Goya Award Winners 2010s Venezuelan films 2010s Spanish films