XXY
Directed by:
Lucía PuenzoCinematography:
Natasha BraierCast:
Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Guillermo Angelelli, Inés Efron, César Troncoso, Martín Piroyansky, Luciano Nóbile, Germán Palacios, Ailín Salas (more)VOD (1)
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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 (Ines Efron) who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski.) Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity, and forces both families to face their worst fears. (official distributor synopsis)
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A lot of today's movies look like they were made by creators without any problems about heroes who, just like them, don't have real problems, and so they create pseudo-problems. It's just a distorted representation of boredom and consumer society. A typical example in the genre of a film with sexual themes is Shortbus. A film with a strange name, XXY, proves that a film with a similar theme can be made sensitively and with a sense of aesthetics and final catharsis. It's not about some cheap sensationalism, it's about a highly bitter, painful, and laborious process of dealing with a genetic defect and the resulting uncertain sexual identity. Similarly, the issue of homosexuality and tolerance in the field of sex in the 21st century, where seemingly there are no taboo topics, is also addressed there. Many things are only hinted at in the film, but they also prompt reflection. I liked it, even though it's just a small and unassuming film at first glance. Overall impression: 90%.
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