She just wants to know what it’s like to have a cock. Is that so wrong?
Berta, a hip yet eccentric lesbian, and her macho Latino friend Tony donâ
€™t appear to have much in common. Tony habitually pursues women and
makes crude locker room jokes with his roommate Frank; Berta has been in
a long-term relationship with her girlfriend Diane for two years and
spends most of her time daydreaming about being someone else. Tony and
Berta’s common ground is most often tequila shots and bitching about
their workplace, a video duplication house called The Dub Barn, until
the night that they both have the exact same dream…a dream of morphing
into each other through their sexual union.
Berta, desperate enough to know what it’s like to have a man’s body
and all the power and privileges that come with it, convinces Tony that
their shared dream must be a cosmic indication of the possibility of
being able to switch bodies. Tony is hesitant at first but realizes that
this could be a way of getting into Berta’s pants…at least as an
experiment.
Tony does get into her pants AND into her body. He delights in dressing
his new body in the “clothes he would want to see� and hits the
streets to pick up bi-curious chicks. Berta, now in Tony’s body,
breaks the news to Diane and expects her to be overjoyed with their newâ
€¦plaything.
Of course, neither Tony nor Berta knew what they were getting themselves
into.
BERTA is a post-modern look at the sexes and the baggage of expectation.
At times campy, at times bone chillingly insightful, this film examines
today’s alienated sense of sexual identity and anticipation with a
scalpel.
Berta, a hip yet eccentric lesbian, and her macho Latino friend Tony donâ
€™t appear to have much in common. Tony habitually pursues women and
makes crude locker room jokes with his roommate Frank; Berta has been in
a long-term relationship with her girlfriend Diane for two years and
spends most of her time daydreaming about being someone else. Tony and
Berta’s common ground is most often tequila shots and bitching about
their workplace, a video duplication house called The Dub Barn, until
the night that they both have the exact same dream…a dream of morphing
into each other through their sexual union.
Berta, desperate enough to know what it’s like to have a man’s body
and all the power and privileges that come with it, convinces Tony that
their shared dream must be a cosmic indication of the possibility of
being able to switch bodies. Tony is hesitant at first but realizes that
this could be a way of getting into Berta’s pants…at least as an
experiment.
Tony does get into her pants AND into her body. He delights in dressing
his new body in the “clothes he would want to see� and hits the
streets to pick up bi-curious chicks. Berta, now in Tony’s body,
breaks the news to Diane and expects her to be overjoyed with their newâ
€¦plaything.
Of course, neither Tony nor Berta knew what they were getting themselves
into.
BERTA is a post-modern look at the sexes and the baggage of expectation.
At times campy, at times bone chillingly insightful, this film examines
today’s alienated sense of sexual identity and anticipation with a
scalpel.
