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XXY

2007 · 86 min

A quiet, emotionally intense coming-of-age drama that asks you to sit with ambiguity and discomfort, offering no easy answers.

Directed by: Lucía Puenzo
Genres: Drama
Starring: Inés Efrón, Martín Piroyansky, Ricardo Darín

Tagline: Our sex makes us men and women ...or both
Overview: Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.

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Directed by: Lucía Puenzo
Genres: Drama
Starring: Inés Efrón, Martín Piroyansky, Ricardo Darín

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
coming-of-age
family
sexuality
isolation
Places: small town
sea
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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