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Casa Susanna
Directed by
Sébastien Lifshitz
PG-13
2022
1h 37m
Documentary
7.1
86%
100%
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In the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
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Cast of Casa Susanna
Katherine Cummings
Self
Diana Merry-Shapiro
Self
Betsy Wollheim
Self
Gregory Bagarozy
Self
Christine Jorgensen
Self (archive footage)
Sébastien Lifshitz
Director / Writer
Muriel Meynard
Producer
Casa Susanna Ratings & Reviews
Movie Bitches
Avaryl Halley
The photographs alone are worth the price of admission
Washington Blade
Kathi Wolfe
Casa Susanna is a fascinating window into hidden queer history.
Awards Radar
Shane Slater
Lifshitz truly crafts an illuminating film filled with many insightful details.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Lifshitz blends archival footage and present-day material seamlessly, weaving his story in intricately connected threads. Love forms the central through line. Who could say no to anyone self-actualizing?
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
It brings a noteworthy spotlight to a meaningful community-gathering place for transgender women and cross-dressing men. There's respect given in the documentary, but viewers will sense that more of Casa Susanna's individual stories could have been told.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
"Casa Susanna" is a must-see documentary regarding transgender portrayals, along with "Disclosure" and "Born to Be."
The Queer Review
James Kleinmann
An absorbing and poignant watch that's essential for anyone interested in queer history.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
By shining a light on the past, Lifshitz lights a beacon for people who feel outcast in today's world.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
Lifshitz gives too much screen time to cis relatives, fails to lead his trans subjects toward anything more than broad strokes, and ends up with a film that over-explains basics of transness more than it delivers this history to its own community.
Next Best Picture
Nadia Dalimonte
While the lack of a consistent core subject puts the film a little out of focus, "Casa Susanna" excels at inviting you to understand a chapter of time through some of the everyday people who lived through it.
The Lonely Film Critic
Tomas Trussow
There is much we will never know about what went on behind the casa's walls, but there is enough here to get a taste of it. For me, at least, I was able to walk away enlightened and humbled by the beauty and freedom of these stories.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Complex and riveting.
Screen Slate
Mark Asch
The archival images in Casa Susanna show an embrace of mainstream femininity, the norms of the society that made it a risk to even pose for them, and it is astonishing and beautiful that they survived.
The Spool
B.L. Panther
Lifshitz has crafted a tender and human work of gender history.
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Alan French
While Casa Susanna contains a different kind of heartbreak than one may associate with hard-hitting documentaries, the stories told burst with pathos and love. Do not ignore this film.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Gentle, but overall absorbing, Lifshitz adds another chapter to his own varied, priceless scrapbook of queer and trans realities his energies and investments have saved from the continual erasure of ignorance and hatred.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
In "Casa Susanna," any sense of isolation or alienation is transformed into solitude, exuding the inner peace its subjects have found and in effect, reopens the doors to the peaceful retreat.
IndieWire
Jude Dry
Watching "Casa Susanna" feels like unearthing a precious treasure, a vital story of resilience and joy that was plucked from the ravages of time before being washed away forever.
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