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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
Lucía Puenzo’s first film, a coming-of-age tale about Alex (Efron), an intersex 15-year-old referred to usually by female pronouns, is a noble addition to the genre, but becomes too hermetically sealed by its own social-outreach mission.
The struggles of those around Alex are equally moving.
An engrossing Argentinean film about a 15-year-old intersex youth who struggles with both her masculine and feminine identities.
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.
Unexpected and wonderfully thoughtful.
Argentine writer-director Puenzo invests this tricky story with real soul, bringing the characters and their situation to vivid life.
It is not a message picture, never lectures, contains partial nudity but avoids explicit images and grows into a poignant human drama.
Top CriticThe Argentine writer-director downplays the clinical angle and avoids easy melodramatic pitfalls.
Top CriticWhat 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.
The movie is a liberal plea without liberation.
Top CriticThe most original coming-of-age drama you'll see this year.
A tough, engaging, extremely touching work of cinema.
Top CriticA somber, brooding study.
Top CriticPic 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.
Top CriticA quietly impressive first feature from novelist and documentary maker Lucia Puenzo.
Moody and thoughtful.
Top CriticExquisitely acted story of a intersex teenage 15-year-old girl who will not commit herself to surgery to correct the duality of genitalia.
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.
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.
A tale that could have been handled with condescending simplicity becomes a testament to the flawed but noble humanity of both parents and children.
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