XXY – Movie Trailer

Sexual exploration is a fact of life for most teenagers, but Alex has a secret to trump all others. Part girl and part boy, Alex faces danger around every corner leading to a decision that will seal her fate.

XXY is a 2007 Argentine film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky. It 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 finds her gender identity.
XXY has received widespread critical acclaim, winning the Critics’ Week grand prize at the 2007 Cannes film festival, as well as the ACID/CCAS Support Award.[1 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. It is distributed within the UK by Peccadillo Pictures, it had a short run theatrical release before being released onto DVD.
At first sight the film’s title appears to be a reference to Klinefelter’s syndrome, also known as XXY syndrome, a condition in which males have an extra X sex chromosome. This would be highly misleading, as the character is referred to as being “intersex” and has female and male genitalia. Those affected with Klinefelter’s syndrome do not fit the condition portrayed in this film. In fact, the film title as shown on screen and in original advertising is not actually XXY – but XX followed by a fractured X – not a Y.

Alex Kraken (Efron) is a 15-year-old intersex person, with both male and female genitals, who has been living as a girl and using medicines to suppress masculine features, such as a beard, and to attempt to have more feminine features. However, recently Alex has stopped taking her medication.
Alex’s parents moved with her from Argentina to a village by the sea in Uruguay, to avoid society’s negative stigma. Her father, Néstor Kraken (Darín), is a marine biologist who has written a book on sexuality and makes a living treating wounded animals found by fishermen. Her mother, Suli (Bertuccelli), invites friends from Argentina: a surgeon, his wife and teenage son Álvaro (Piroyansky). The purpose, unknown to Néstor and Alex, is to discuss the possibilities of sex reassignment surgery.
Alex directly tells Álvaro that she would like to have sex with him. Alex seduces Álvaro and begins to have anal intercourse with him (with her as the penetrative partner), but they are interrupted when Néstor catches sight of them through an open door. When Alex later apologizes, Álvaro admits that he liked it.
Three boys from the village forcibly pull down Alex’s pants to see her genitals. Néstor realizes that reporting this to the police would cause the whole village to know about Alex’s condition. However, Alex decides that it does not matter. Alex also decides that she does not want to resume taking medicines or have an operation.

Alex ha un segreto inconfessabile. Per questo i suoi genitori, quando lei era ancora in fasce, lasciarono Buenos Aires per trasferirsi sulle coste uruguayane, lontani dall’occhio indiscreto della gente. Un giorno, nella loro casa, arrivano degli ospiti molto attesi. Un chirurgo plastico di chiara fama, accompagnato da sua moglie e dal giovanissimo figlio di sedici anni, vecchi amici di famiglia, iniziano a occuparsi del “caso” dell’adolescente.
Le tre lettere del titolo rappresentano un’anomalia cromosomica – di quelle persone che hanno all’interno del loro patrimonio genetico sia dei gameti maschili che femminili – che resta il punto chiave della pellicola dell’esordiente regista argentina Lucia Puenzo. Alex, quindicenne alla scoperta della propria identità e delle prime esperienze sessuali, vive con disagio la propria diversità. Il suo essere ermafrodita, è più un problema sociale che personale, nella curiosità morbosa di chi le gravita affianco considerandola un “freak”.
in concorso alla sessantesima edizione della settimana della critica e vincitore del Prix de JeunesseXXY è una pellicola asciutta, a basso costo, e senza troppe pretese estetiche. La camera a mano e una colonna sonora molto discreta, fanno sì che non si perda mai di vista il punto centrale di tutta la narrazione: la diversità e l’essere accettati socialmente. La regista argentina porta sullo schermo un tema originale su cui il cinema non ha mai speso molte energie, e lo fa con discrezione e accuratezza, senza sbavature e intenti pedagogici, riprendendo con l’occhio esterno della macchina da presa una storia di vita vera, per permettere a tutti, usciti dalla sala, di saperne qualcosa in più sulle vite degli altri.

XXY – INTERSEXUALIDADE- (Filme completo Español)