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Roger Ebert. September 4, 2008. 4 min read. Surrounded by family members, Alex (Ines Efron, center) nestles on a blanket-covered cot in the Argentine film "XXY." Alex was born with both male and female sex organs. Although "reassignment" surgery was considered after birth, she has lived as a woman until the age of 15, when "XXY" takes ...

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XXY. Directed by Lucía Puenzo. Drama, Romance. Not Rated. 1h 26m. By Stephen Holden. May 2, 2008. How must the world appear to someone who has been treated as an exotic clinical specimen from ...

Alex, a 15-year-old girl with both male and female sexual organs, begins to explore her sexuality. Her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires and their 16-year-old son Alvaro to visit them at ...

Filter by Rating: 10/10. A film of haunting beauty and compassion. howard.schumann 1 February 2009. Adapted from a short story by Sergio Bizzio, XXY is the story of Alex (Inés Efron), a fifteen year old intersexual born with genitalia characteristic of both male and female. Argentine director Lucia Puenzo, daughter of Luis Puenzo who directed ...

XXY - Metacritic. 2008. Not Rated. Film Movement. 1 h 26 m. Summary For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15-year-old Alex, who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from ...

NEW YORK -- "XXY," an Argentinean film by debuting director Lucia Puenzo, rises to the challenge of its difficult sexual subject matter. The story of a young hermaphrodite who's not sure if she's ...

Martín Piroyansky. , another fearless contribution). Their curdled filial relationship in turn offers another angle on parents too ready to define their children through their sexuality, and ...

If XXY is imagistically too programmatic (a scene of carrots being sliced is typical of its Freudian heavy-handedness) and devoid of humor, it never seems pruriently exploitative. It sustains an unsettling mood of ambiguity that lingers long after the final credits. Read More. By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW. 70.

Original Title: XXY. Argentinian director Puenzo's dazzling debut landed the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes, which is a relief given the potential of a film about a 15 year-old ...

XXY is a 2007 Argentine drama film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo and starring Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky.Based on the short story Cinismo (Cynicism), included in the book Chicos (Boys) by author Sergio Bizzio, the film tells the story of a 15-year-old intersex person, the way her family copes with her condition and the ultimate decision that ...

Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion. Lucía Puenzo. Director, Screenplay.

Review: XXY. XXY addresses the multifaceted needs inherent to father-child relations. There's a secret at the heart of XXY, but the real mystery is why writer-director Lucía Puenzo insists on unnecessary symbolic gestures for a story otherwise told with delicacy, restraint, and maturity. At a seaside Uruguayan village, 15-year-old Alex (Ines ...

XXY Reviews. What could easily have been a sideshow is instead a somber, earnest drama about intersexed people. Even after escaping to the Argentine coast, a teenager (Inés Efron) with both male ...

Argentine director Lucía Puenzo's visually arresting and emotionally affecting film "XXY" celebrates this liminal space in-between: a place of indiscernible truth. "XXY" shares the life of Alex, a knobbly kneed, 15-year-old Argentine girl (Inés Efron) who is an unusual intersection of genders: her body is home to both male and ...

Tweet. The potential for this film to go very wrong was great. After all, hermaphroditism - more commonly referred to as intersexuality these days - is a subject that could easily end up being played for its 'freak' value. That XXY explores the issue carefully from the emotional viewpoint, without being exploitative makes it all the ...

Review: Gender As Destiny in "XXY". Published: May. 30, 2008, 10:54 a.m. By. Shawn Levy, The Oregonian. A delicate issue receives delicate but forthright treatment in the Argentinean drama "XXY ...

XXY: Directed by Lucía Puenzo. With Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti. The story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.

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XXY (2007) was her first major international success, winning the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and awards at the Athens, Bangkok, Cartagena, Kerala, Ljubljana, Montreal and Sao Paolo film festivals. Intersex actress Efron was named Best Actress by the Argentinean Film Critics Association, which also gave awards to the ...

Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. In this unusual Argentine film directed by Lucia Puenzo and based on a short story by Sergio Bizzio, a 15-year-old who was born with both male and female sex organs must decide which gender to assume. Alex (Ines Efron) was born an intersex infant and her mother, Suli (Valeria Bertuccelli), decided ...

Reviewed at Image Film screening room, Madrid, May 3, 2007. (In Cannes Film Festival -- Critics' Week). Running time: 86 MIN. With: With: Ricardo Darin, Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski, German ...

The critical consensus is: "This sharp directorial debut by Lucia Puenzo treats the challenging subject of intersex with intelligence and sensitivity." Metacritic, which assigns a standardized score out of 100, rated the film 67 based on 15 reviews, indicating "Generally favorable reviews." Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars of out 4.

Despite a committed young cast, director McG's unexciting franchise-starter doesn't say anything all that meaningful about inner beauty and warped beauty standards. At the start, King sums up ...