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  Review by robin moon (fae/faer) ★★ 13

  I think I've mentioned this before, but just in case, one of the first classes I took as part of my Women and Gender Studies minor was affectionately known as "gay 101" by instructor and students alike. Or I guess you could use its much more stuffy and official-sounding title of "Sexual Orientation and Public Policy." There were a lot of things discussed in that class that I'll never forget. One of them was the fact that when a child is born without an unambiguous gender assignment (leaving aside the ridiculousness of assigning gender at birth for another day), it's often treated as though it's a medical emergency. But there is no medical emergency. The emergency is a social one,…

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  Review by Matías Sanz ★★★★ 2

  La cara de pelotudo de Martín Piroyansky es insostenible ya.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black

  This first came on my radar when one of my favorite less-than-active writers wrote about it (a return is always welcome!). The ways in which others personally connect to films is often beautiful; it's one the real pleasures of this site. Not only does it produce the eloquent (and sometimes not so eloquent but always enthusiastic) words that are so inspiring to read, but they give us that key to connection, either in the moment of reading or later when we see the film with their words echoing in our minds or both. And more, it expands our cinematic vocabulary to have the words and thoughts of one whose experiences are not our own.

  I was admittedly hesitant about this…

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  Review by sarah ★★★★ 1

  Quentin Tarantino once said that Ricardo Darin is the Al Pacino of Argentina and I just wanna say that he's totally right.

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  Review by Alyna Arriagada ★★★★★ 3

  Wow.

  It's rare to encounter a film that feels like it was made for you. To experience something so personal, so close, and so relatable that it bewilders the mind and leaves you thinking "how does this film actually exist?" When everything resonates with you on such a deep, emotional level, you just have to wonder how other people take in the experience, other people who are not like you. Looking at other reviews for XXY, I can see that these 'other people' did like it, even being able to emotionally connect to it on some intermediate level, but I'm sure almost nobody else had the same experience and emotions I did while watching the film; having their heart and…

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  Review by Frank ★★★★

  ¿Estamos hablando de la paja y salís con Uruguay?

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  Review by yulietitaa ★★★½

  ¿Qué sos cuando nadie sabe qué sos?

  Estoy muy feliz que se trate la intersexualidad desde nuestro cine nacional. Si bien algunas escenas me parecieron raras como si las hubieran recortado y pegado de la nada, valoro mucho que se haya tratado este tema, y más hace tantos años y de una manera tan delicada.
  La trama es sumamente compleja y por ello me hubiera gustado que la peli durase más, por lo menos en la parte del desarrollo. El final me pareció estupendo y tenía mucho miedo de que terminaran yendo por encima de las decisiones de Alex.
  Mi parte preferida es claramente ¿y si no hay nada por elegir? ¿Qué sucede cuando el mecanismo estructurante de mi personalidad (el género) no se ajusta a lo que soy? ¿Cómo dejo de amoldarme a una norma y hago que ella se amolde a mí?

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★★

  XXY. 2007. Directed by Lucia Puenzo.

  Lucia Puenzo made a sensitive film about being intersexual. Adolescence has its challenges but the protagonist Alex (Ines Efron) was born intersexual and their parents are trying to protect her from local ignorant men who will exploit and/or kill this adolescent. In short, this is a film about gender identification and its challenges coupled with falling in love before choosing a gender. The film moves briskly and the story is LGBTQ friendly and pertinent.

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  Review by shookone ★★½

  purist arthouse cinema from Argentina. the actors fill the screen, the story on the other hand is too clear and streamlined to be more than what is told. a couple of powerful moments, but not a coherent endeavor.

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  Review by Ricky ★★★

  Que complicado que es opinar sobre esta película.
  Creo que trata temas muy importantes pero no de una manera del todo "correcta" (énfasis en las comillas pues, ¿Qué es correcto en este rubro?). Entiendo a lo que quiere o busca llegar, y a pesar de que lo consigue "algo", no creo que lo haya logrado del todo.
  Considero que se podría haber centrado de otra manera y hubiera dado un mejor resultado. Es mas, tiene un buen enfoque (y mensaje), pero se pierde de cierta manera. Entra en subtramas, conflictos que considero innecesarios y no se centra del todo en Alex realmente. Sea que siente, que le pasa, más allá de lo obvio que es su incertidumbre sobre su género,…

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  Review by agus 🍒 ★★★★

  Qué sutileza y lentitud. Cómo la nada comienza a cargarse y hace sentir una pesadez propia de los momentos en que algo no se dice, pero está allí, implícito, pugnando por ser oído.
  El dolor de Alex, se siente en su mirada constantemente, en esas miradas que no son devueltas, cada vez que le niegan como sujeto.
  Cinematografía y dirección a cargo de mujeres and it shows.

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  Review by TonytheBlind1 ★★★★ 3

  I didn't have any idea what this movie was about when it was first recommended to me on Netflix. I read the synopsis, which only gave the usual vague description about a hermaphrodite in Uruguay. Not the most intriguing tag line, but I will watch anything that gets thrown in front of me and this was being taken off of Netflix streaming that week and I figured it wouldn't hurt and it had some decent reviews as well.

  I couldn't have made a better blind watch (except for when I watched Fucking Amal). I was blown away by this film, by both the story and the performances from the teen actors. Films that deal with teens approaching their sexual identity…