A quietly impressive first feature from novelist and documentary maker Lucia Puenzo.
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05/23/07
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XXY (2008)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:31
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: This sharp directorial debut by Lucia Puenzo treats the challenging subject of intersexuality with intelligence and sensitivity.
Theatrical Release:May 2, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Alex is a 15-year-old teenager with a secret. Soon after her birth her parents decide to leave Buenos Aires to make a home out of an isolated wooden cabin tucked away in the dunes of the Uruguayan... [More]
Starring: Ricardo Darin, Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Director: Lucia Puenzo
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Reviews for XXY
Ricardo Darin... again proves that he can break your heart with a look, conveying unspoken emotion with a glance that taps you into his pain.
08/24/07
An intimate, atmospheric character study with a lingering erotic charge, Lucía Puenzo's XXY is one of the year's most impressive directing debuts.
05/07/08
Top CriticSee it not only because it works as an exquisitely tendered emotional experience, but also because it is the first cinematic treatment in fictional form of a taboo-breaking ticklish subject.
04/30/08
Top CriticThe most original coming-of-age drama you'll see this year.
05/09/08
The Argentine writer-director downplays the clinical angle and avoids easy melodramatic pitfalls.
03/24/08
Despite its sometimes creepy tentativeness, XXY succeeds as a meditation on gender and sexuality, one that refuses an easy answer to the question, 'Is it a boy or a girl?'
09/26/08
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10/18/08
Unexpected and wonderfully thoughtful.
10/18/08
treats gender issues with a hand so delicate you feel sad for everyone involved
11/15/08
With 'XXY,' Argentinean writer-director Lucía Puenzo takes what could have been a movie-of-the week subject and instead delivers a thoughtful and deeply moving tale.
10/13/08
Under Puenzo's attentive yet strangely enervated direction, there's not much dramatic urgency here.
05/02/08
...comes off as a well-intentioned yet hopelessly uneven effort...
05/17/08
Lucía Puenzo's XXY is as finely crafted as a great work of literature.
08/01/08
The good news is that this is an intelligent drama that is in no way exploitative.
09/26/08
A contrived screenplay dilutes the unique story.
10/18/08
To the director's credit, what could have been a clinical study or fact-based medical case instead unfolds as a touching coming of age tale focusing on the tender romantic angle.
06/27/08
Un drama intimista y sutil, alejado de cualquier explotación morbosa, sobre un tema poco transitado por el cine. Falla un poco en convicción dramática, pero algunas actuaciones elevan el interés.
10/09/07
An engrossing Argentinean film about a 15-year-old intersex youth who struggles with both her masculine and feminine identities.
05/15/08
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