Overview

• Enigma pairs the lives of Lear and British trans pioneer April Ashley using civil-register extracts, photographs and testimonies from Paris’s Le Carrousel cabaret.
• Lear denounces Enigma as an “osceno” outing and says she is a victim of “transinvestigation.”
• The documentary presents Lear’s purported deadname, Alain Tap, and suggests she underwent a sex-change operation in Casablanca followed by a marriage to Morgan Lear.
• HBO Max tells the Washington Post it never received a diffida from Lear’s team and that its agreement imposed no topic restrictions.
• Director Zackary Drucker describes Enigma as a “documentary of love” born from admiration for Lear.