XXY

Sunday November 16, 2008
8:30pm

Argentina, 2007, 91 Minute Running Time
Language: Spanish English Sub-Titles

Director: Lucia Puenzo

Tickets: $9.00

XXY is a portrait of Alex, a 15-year-old coping with an extended puberty made more complicated by the presence of an extra chromosome and, according to her mother, a few extra parts. Born intersex, Alex has been brought up female. But now that her body is changing - and she's faced with the prospect of "corrective" surgery that her father refused to allow when she was born - she's beginning to wonder.

First-time director Lucia Puenzo has created a film as beautiful, tough and unpredictable as the rocky Uruguayan shoreline on which it is set. The moody and moving portrait she paints against that backdrop - with help from talented cinematographer Natasha Braier and fearless young actress Ines Flores - is like nothing you've seen in any other film.