| View Larger Image | XXy | DVDStarring: Ricardo DarÃÂÂn, German Palacios, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski
Directed By: Lucia Puenzo
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 91 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | Film Movement | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | October 14, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 26,638th |
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Product Description
Studio: Repnet Llc Release Date: 10/14/2008 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 10 reviews)
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Your film is HONEST by A. S. W. (Los Angeles, CA USA)  5 Stars
October 02, 2009
A letter to Lucía Puenzo:
Dear Lucia, thank you for your amazing film XXY. I just finished watching it on DVD and I am truly moved not only by your artistry and confidence in filmmaking but also by the subject you so sensitively depict. You created an immense emotional human drama from a taboo subject.
Fortunately social norms are in constant change, but we are still living with so many stigmatized topics from the past, and films like yours bring a great contribution to slowly but surely erase society's negative behavior about unusual or dissimilar people. We are all human beings made of the same stuff.
Your film is HONEST. You succeeded to create a non-exploitive wonderful film encouraging us to be sensitive to each other, understand and enjoy the diversity this noble nature is offering. The major characters in your film are interesting, different and talented, young Alex and Alvaro are convincing and touching.
I will cherish this film for a long, long time to come. I will recommend to all my friends and eagerly waiting for your next creation. You are a talented artist.
Respectfully,
Adam
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Quietly Simple, Emotionally Complex by Valerie F. Arena (PA) 5 Stars
July 09, 2009
I'm still reeling from watching this film last night. I'd watched it because someone had mentioned seeing it (a friend on Facebook) and she'd described it as "disturbing." Living in PA, a relatively conservative area, I'm assuming now it was not a positive "disturbing" that she inferred.
My take away on this film was it's beautiful simplicity. I ache for the decisions and categorization that those who are not "gender specific" must go through. It can not be easy. But who are we to make these breathing, living, emotional people feel that they must categorize themselves? The girl, Alex whom this story is about summed it up perfectly "maybe there is no choice." I'd like to know more about the background of this film, the actors, etc. But taking it as a movie, I know there are many who have had to deal with this situation and it can't be easy. Are we as society forcing them to deal with what they were born as/with? Yes, to some extent we are. But we must also realize that with both male and female traits and body aspects, comes hormonal signals that must be very difficult to deal with. Knowing that you look like a girl on the outside, but act with agression at times due to the male aspects of yourself, yet being attracted to one particular sex or both, can not make it any easier.
It is a two fold (society and self) anxiety that these folks must deal with (just as transgendered/transexual folks deal with). Some don't have both sets of genitalia but their minds or bodies often do not agree with the physical representation that they present, male or female. We as a society have a long way to go to accept people as they are. Who are we to judge? We can not know what a person feels (unless it is ourself!).
I love this film, the contrast of the simplicity of dialogue, the slow pace of the film with the extreme pain this character was experiencing. The beautiful thing in this film was the undying support that her parents provided. They had the option to have the situation surgically "taken care of" at Alex's birth, however they opted not to, the father stating that when Alex was born "she was perfect."
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1/2 of XX + 1/2 of XY = XXY or an Excellent Movie by Hector Rombola (Toronto, ON Canada) 5 Stars
June 29, 2009
This is an Argentinean film about an Argentinean family coming to terms with their daugther's crossroad in choosing her sex gender. By getting away from the controversy about homosexuality and whether it is acceptable or not, this film centers on the emotionally charged situation when gender is not clearly defined. Although the family had chosen reclusion ("staying in the closet") as the movie unfolds so they are forced to "come out of the closet" and face their own reality. The born-girl is not alone as she has her parents' love for who she is, but they also have to deal with their own adjustment. This is surely a very emotionally involving movie which will bring a very animated discussion after watching it. Do not expect any Hollywood-style superficiality and/or commercially profitable catchy scenes as the subject is deal with very tenderly. A must see.
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A choice responsible for solely by Michael Kerjman (The Earth) 5 Stars
May 07, 2009
Born into a modern Argentine family of three daughters, hermaphrodite has during fifteen years to date been grown as a girl. The recent experimenting with a family friends' bit older teen son has brought about a different experience and feelings, confusing and dividing even own parents with a choice their offspring facing and responsible for solely.
A nice intelligent movie on a rarely screened topic is, perhaps, of a much better purely technical quality than DVD a reviewer owns presents.
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More subtle even than these reviews might lead you to believe by a music (new mexico)  4 Stars
March 25, 2009
This is truly a fantastic film, marred only very slightly by one strange and slightly mystifying scene that feels almost condescending (more on this in a moment).
Alex's parents have not, in fact, decided to have her "normalized." Her father, Kraken, convinced her mother, Suli, not to let the doctors operate on her when she was born because she was, in his words "perfect." Instead, he wants to protect her until she's old enough to make up her own mind. Suli, is less certain about what would be best, and invites Ramiro (the surgeon) and Erika (his wife) to visit from Buenos Aires. With them arrives their adolescent son, Alvaro, who becomes fascinated with Alex. Ramiro is a distant and uncaring father, but his relationship with Alvaro is explained almost entirely in a single scene where he reveals his disappointment with Alvaro. The contrast between Kraken, who can love Alex despite pressure from the larger world to make her "normal," and Ramiro, who is afraid his son may be gay, is so sharply drawn that it feels manipulative and obvious. This is unfortunate, because the rest of the movie is so steeped in ambiguity that the cliches here really stand out.
That said, this is a very worthwhile film, and Ricardo Darin (Kraken) especially completely inhabits his role, exuding both love and uncertainty in equal measure.
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