Elena Alexander

One of the saddest, most touching and beautiful films I've seen in some time. The ignorant assumptions and arrogant cruelty of the majority culture, experienced for the first time by the protagonist, Elle-Marje, and the empathetic tension that arises, as she first attempts to "cross over" into that culture, to become "Christina," makes watching "Sami Blood," beginning to end, not merely compelling, but visceral.