XXY

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Movie
German title XXY
Original title XXY
Country of production Argentina
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2007
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Lucía Puenzo
script Lucía Puenzo (based on Cinismo , short story by Sergio Bizzio )
production José María Morales
Carla Pelligra
Luis Puenzo
Fernando Sirianni
Fabienne Vonier
music Andrés Goldstein
Daniel Tarrab
camera Natasha Braier
cut Alex Zito
occupation
Crew from XXY at the Cannes Film Festival, 2007

XXY is a 2007 Argentinian drama film about the life of 15-year-old intersex Alex. Lucía Puenzo made her directorial debut with this film. She also wrote the script. The main roles in XXY are played by Ricardo Darín , Valeria Bertuccelli , Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky .

According to the German distributor, the film title does not refer to Klinefelter syndrome , also known as XXY syndrome, which describes men with an extra X chromosome . Rather, it is supposed to stand as a “poetic metaphor for intersexuality” by using the chromosome set designations “XX” and “XY” for clearly female or clearly male gender, and from this it forms “a mysterious, ambiguously fluctuating letter trio” .

Since the title suggests the similarity, it was criticized by Unitask , an Italian organization for men with Klinefelter syndrome and their relatives, because men with Klinefelter syndrome do not have a female figure and no female genital organs like the main character in the film. The film is about a person affected by adrenogenital syndrome .

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Alex is a 15 year old intersex. She has male and female genitals, but so far lived as a girl, which was made possible by taking hormonal drugs. However, she has now stopped what will sooner or later lead to the masculinization of her appearance.

Alex's parents moved with her from Argentina to a village on the coast of Uruguay to escape negative reactions from society. Her father, Néstor Kraken, is a marine biologist who has also published a book on sexuality and lives in tune with fishermen who bring him wounded animals to care. Alex's mother Suli invites friends from Argentina: a surgeon with his wife and teenage son Álvaro. The purpose of the visit, which Alex and her father will initially conceal, is to discuss the possibilities of an operation. Álvaro doesn't know anything about Alex's intersexuality.

Alex openly tells Álvaro that she wants to have sex with him. After some hesitation, he lets himself be seduced. However, Alex unexpectedly penetrates Álvaro anally. They are interrupted by Néstor, who was watching the scene. Alex later apologizes, but Álvaro says he liked it. Álvaro's father is relieved after hearing that his son finds Alex attractive; he was concerned that Álvaro might be gay.

Basically, Néstor only wants the best for his child. For him, Alex has been perfect since birth. He was always aware that Alex could change his mind and don't want to stay a girl. In order to come to terms with himself more, he seeks out a former intersex person who, when he reached the age of majority, decided to have himself surgically adjusted to the (anatomically) male gender.

Three boys from the village forcibly tear off Alex's pants to examine his genitals. When Néstor learns about it, he is beside himself. He drives straight to the culprits and warns them to leave his son - at this point in time he calls Alex that for the first time - alone. He wants to file a report with the police, but realizes that the whole village would then know about the special features of his child. So he decides to let Alex make the decision. Alex thinks that it doesn't matter if everyone finds out. She also decides to finally stop taking the medication and not have any surgery. Everything should just be the way it is.

Leitmotif

Alex has an aquarium full of clown fish . Clownfish are temporary hermaphrodites : all individuals are male at the beginning and can later become female. This example of a hermaphroditic organism in nature runs through the entire film.

The motif of the sea animal also appears in the family name Octopus .

Reviews

XXY received numerous positive reviews, the Critics' Week award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and the ACID / CCAS Support Award . He was honored with eight nominations in the context of the Argentine Film Critics Association Awards 2008 and was also nominated at a number of international film festivals, at which he also won awards. It was also chosen as the graduation film for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2008.

“A combative, but always entertaining film that approaches its subject with disarming directness. In doing so, he makes himself strong in terms of style and content convincingly for the right to individuality .. "

- Lexicon of international film

In the US, the premiere took place on June 24, 2008 on Frameline 32 , the 32nd International LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for XXY . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ a b Official German website for the film - backgrounds
  3. ↑ Le Critiche del Comitato Scientifico Unitask-XXY. Uomini, Donne o tutti e due? . In: Tecnomed - Centro Medico Biologico . Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Sindrome di Klinefelter: la posizione dell'associazione sul film “XXY. Uomini, donne o tutti e due? ” . In: Salute Europa . Retrieved July 12, 2007. 
  5. ↑ Rebecca Leffler: Critics Week grand prize to 'XXY' ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Hollywood Reporter , May 26, 2007. Accessed June 25, 2007.
  6. ↑ XXY. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 18, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used