Bisexuality is not well understood in cultures that are accustomed to either/or categorizations of human sexuality. Now, the Spanish film I Will Survive (Sobreviveré), directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, joins the 1999 French film The School of Flesh (L’Ecole de la Chair) in presenting a male lead actor who plays both sides of the fence without apology. When I Will Survive begins, Marga (played by Emma Suárez) walks out the door of her home, fed up with her authoritarian father, to marry Roberto (played by Adría Collado). En route to a blissful honeymoon, however, Roberto swerves his car to avoid hitting a child and dies at the wheel. Marga survives, but emotionally is brokenhearted, as she is carrying Roberto’s child. Having been disinherited by her father, a girlfriend, Tini (played by Rosana Pastor), takes her in and gives her a job as a clerk at her video rental store. Some five years later, Tini runs off with a man and sells the store to Marga, who can only afford the sales price with the aid of two male lovers, Carlos and José (played by Javiet Martin and Alex Brendmühl), as cosigners, and the store is renamed Boom Video. Meanwhile, Marga is then taken in by Rosa (played by Mirtha Ibarra), a Cuban refugee. One day, Iñaqi (played by Juan Diego Botto), a sculptor, enters the store to rent a tape. Although he is almost ten years younger than thirtysomething Marga, the two are instantly attracted to each other. They meet again at a stage performance, where Rosa is fascinated by one of the performers, a crossdresser named Rolando (played by Manuel Manquiña). Soon, both couples begin to date. Iñaqi, however, has recently abandoned Oscar (played by Alberto San Juan) after a six-month relationship. When Iñaqi and Marga date, she meets some of Iñaqi’s gay friends, including Oscar. One night at a gay bar Oscar tries to rekindle flames under Iñaqi, just as Tini enters the bar. Tini has broken up with her boyfriend, and she wants to fill Marga in on her latest misfortunes, so the two leave the bar and drive to a quiet spot to talk at more length. When they drive back to the bar, Marga sees Iñaqi walking out of the bar with Oscar and infers the worst, and the two become estranged. Soon, wedding bells toll for Rosa and Rolando. At the wedding reception, Iñaqi suddenly emerges alongside Marga, and the two admit that they could not live without each other. But the film ends with a monologue by Marga directly in front of the camera. Noting that her relationship with Iñaqi lasted one year longer than his affair with Oscar, she indicates that she will survive nevertheless. Clearly, I Will Survive attempts to be a mainstream film, speaking to females who are misled in the belief that gays are men who just have not found the right woman while affirming Sigmund Freud’s observation that human bisexuality is the normal condition of humans at birth that later is cast aside as we conform to the requirements of modern civilization. However, for Latin cultures, where divorce is unthinkable, secret extramarital affairs provide a customary outlet. And, if we are to comprehend the plots of an increasing number of French and Spanish films, the younger generation is very accepting of gay relationships, which appear alternatively as intense and as fragile as those involving opposite-sex couples. MH