XXY
- Director: Lucía Puenzo
- Writer: Sergio Bizzio; Lucía Puenzo
- Producer: José María Morales; Carla Pelligra
CGiii Comment
This beautifully shot movie is a complete mind-f**k for all concerned.
The calm intensity is slowly built up amid blue hues.
This is skillful direction (and writing) by the daughter of Argentina's finest. Sometimes there is merit in nepotism.
She accomplishes the compassion and the cruelty of those around the central character.
It's about love and choice, rejection and acceptance...seldom will you see a movie with such maturity.
Exceptional. A controlled masterwork. Stark beauty.
Trailer...
XXY Trailer from Kioyfilms on Vimeo.
The(ir) Blurb...
In a small coastal town of fishermen in Uruguay, the biologist Kraken works and lives in a house at the sea side with his wife Suli and their aggressive fifteen year-old daughter Alex. When Suli welcomes her former best friend Erika that comes with her husband, the surgeon Ramiro and their teenage son Alvaro to spend a couple of days with her family, Kraken learns that his wife invited Ramiro to operate Alex. Meanwhile Alex and Alvaro feel attracted by each other; however, Alvaro finds that Alex is hermaphrodite and she finds that Alvaro is gay. But the troubled and outcast Alex has the right to choose what gender she wants for her.
Cast & Characters
Ricardo Darin as Kraken;
Valeria Bertuccelli as Suli;
German Palacios as Ramiro;
Carolina Pelleritti as Erika;
Martin Piroyansky as Alvaro;
Ines Efron as Alex;
Guillermo Angelelli as Juan;
Cesar Troncoso as Washington;
Jean Pierre Reguerraz as Esteban;
Ailin Salas as Roberta;
Luciano Nobile as Vando;
Lucas Escariz as Saul