XXY

(2007)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 330 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2007

Runtime: 86 мин

Country: Argentina, Spain

Director: Lucía Puenzo

Cast: Inés Efrón, Martín Piroyansky, Рикардо Дарин, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Peleritti, Guillermo Angelelli, César Troncoso, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Ailín Salas

Plot

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.

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 from Argentina to spend a couple of days with her family, Kraken learns of the real reason for their visit, for Ramiro to operate on Alex. The reason being that Alex was born with both male and female sex organs. During the visit Alex and Alvaro grow closer in attraction to one another and eventually have sexual intercourse which causes even more confusion for the both of them. This film follows this period of time in Alex's life as she deals with constant questions about her gender identification, a pursuit of love and how to cope with her uniqueness.