Facets Cinémathèque
1517 W Fullerton Ave
773.281.4114
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XXY
- When
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Sep 5, 2008 – Sep 11, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$9
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If Ingmar Bergman had directed an Argentine movie about a pubescent hermaphrodite, the result might have been XXY. Alex is a wild-eyed teen who resides with hir family in an isolated seaside town to avoid the undue scrutiny that hir genital ambiguity might invite elsewhere. When a plastic surgeon and his sexually confused son visit, they permanently disrupt the precarious harmony Alex's family has achieved. While the film is perhaps too rife with symbolism, its elegant quietude, rendered in long, bare shadows, proves wholly unusual — as does the character of Alex, whose unruly bravado goes a long way toward showing how familial love helps trump societal taboos, no matter how ingrained.
