Beauty Refugee

Name: Beauty Refugee
Director: Cláudia Lisboa
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-01-31
Duration: 58 min

201058m

★ 0.0

Documentary

Twenty-eight of my family members and relatives have been operated at least once by my brother who is a plastic surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Having grown up as a 'work-in-progress' where the premise, myself, was constantly questioned, as an adult I had to ask my family: could that premise be changed?

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