{"product_id":"change-of-sex-cambio-de-sexo-1977","title":"CHANGE OF SEX (CAMBIO DE SEXO 1977)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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, \u003cem\u003eChange of Sex\u003c\/em\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, \u003cem\u003eHigh Heels\u003c\/em\u003e) and Bibiana Fernández (\u003cem\u003eKika\u003c\/em\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","brand":"New Release","offers":[{"title":"BLU-RAY","offer_id":50534026379483,"sku":null,"price":44.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/6379\/4395\/files\/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-11.13.07-AM.jpg?v=1790688016","url":"https:\/\/baystvideo.com\/products\/change-of-sex-cambio-de-sexo-1977","provider":"Bay Street Video","version":"1.0","type":"link"}