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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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
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
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
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
An engrossing Argentinean film about a 15-year-old intersex youth who struggles with both her masculine and feminine identities.
05/15/08
Exquisitely acted story of a intersex teenage 15-year-old girl who will not commit herself to surgery to correct the duality of genitalia.
04/15/08
Moody and thoughtful.
12/17/08
XXY is the first film to address intersex identity with graceful compassion, and [director] Puenzo tells Alex's story with simple, honest and forthright integrity.
09/26/08
Pic has more in common with standard child/parent conflict dramas than it would probably care to admit, but its sensitive treatment of an equally sensitive theme elevates it into something memorable.
05/20/07
What could easilyhave been an exploitative freak show is instead a somber, earnest drama about the issues facing intersexed individuals -- those born with male and female genitalia.
05/02/08
[Director] Puenzo takes advantage of her young actors' star quality, filming their scenes mostly in intense close-ups
05/02/08
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