XXY (2007)
- Directed by
- Lucía Puenzo
- Genre
- drama film, intersex film
- Country
- Argentina, France, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- MA15+
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 324 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A 15-year-old intersex person and their family navigate the social pressures and personal decisions around gender identity. The story focuses on the tensions that arise when a friend visits their home in coastal Uruguay.
intimatecontemplativetenderpoignantquietly intensethoughtfulunderstated
What happens
XXY is a 2007 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 she must eventually make as she struggles to define her own gender identity within a society that expects certain behaviors from every individual. XXY received positive reviews from critics, winning the Critics' Week grand prize at the 2007 Cannes film festival, as well as the ACID/CCAS Support Award. It was nominated for eight awards at the 2008 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, winning three of them including Best Film, and was nominated or won awards at a number of other foreign film festivals. It was chosen to close the 2008 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and had a short run theatrical release before being released onto DVD. The film also won the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film and the Golden Crow Pheasant at the International Film Festival of Kerala. The film is widely know for how it has portrayed intersex identity in such a sensitive way as well as critiqued the binary gender norms. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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