Enigma review: a fascinating look into the overlapping lives of Amanda Lear and April Ashley

Amanda Lear (Image: BFI Flare)

In Enigma, a fascinating new documentary from trans filmmaker Zackary Drucker, we delve deep into the lives of two legends of queer history and mythology: April Ashley and Amanda Lear.

The film covers the women’s beginnings at the legendary Parisian cabaret club Le Carousel where they supposedly first met, and tracks how their lives diverged onto vastly different paths, as Ashley briefly found success as a fashion model before becoming a tabloid item in the UK when her marriage to artistocrat Arthur Corbett was famously annulled in 1970 on the grounds that she had concealed her transgender identity from him (though she maintained he was always aware of her history).

Meanwhile, Lear found herself playing muse to Salvador Dalí and mingling with the likes of

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