May 22, 2007

Cannes. XXY.

XXY "The psychological fallout from alternative sexualities is explored to subtle and penetrating effect in Lucía Puenzo's XXY, a study of teen angst that's grounded in more than simply nebulous emotion," writes Jonathan Holland in Variety of this Critics' Week entry.

"Inés Efron is also a talent worth noting as Alex, a solitary, tomboyish 15-year-old living with her parents in an isolated fishing port on the Uruguayan shoreline," writes Allan Hunter for Screen Daily. "Her fierce eyes and surly manner eloquently convey the anger and confusion of someone who believes that the world considers her a freak and that it might be right."

"Unlike the cringe-worthy scenes in Zoo that misleadingly present the subjects' sexual fantasies as though they exist within a larger realm of normalcy, XXY acknowledges Alex's condition as unique, and proceeds by allowing us to become comfortable with her to the point where her condition no longer precedes our understanding of her personality," argues Eric Kohn at indieWIRE.

Cannes @ 60. Index.



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Posted by dwhudson at May 22, 2007 5:00 AM