Movie: I Don't Know

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Jimmie Michaels
Jimmie Michaels

Self

Dana Reuben
Dana Reuben

Self

Andy Spheeris
Andy Spheeris

Self

Linda Spheeris
Linda Spheeris

Self

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    A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in between male and female, in an expression of personal ambiguity suggested by the film’s title. This nonfiction film – an unusual, partly staged work of semi-verité – is the first of Spheeris’s films to fully embrace what would become her characteristic documentary style: probing, intimate, uncompromising. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

  • Release Date

    1971-11-09

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    3.25

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    1.6 starts
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    English
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