XXY
by Lucía Puenzo
synopsis
Alex is a 15-year-old teenager with a secret. Soon after her birth her parents decide to leave Buenos Aires to make a home out of an isolated wooden house tucked away in the dunes of the Uruguayan shoreline. Then a couple of friends from Buenos Aires comes visiting us with their 16-year-old son Álvaro. Álvaro´s father is a plastic surgeon who accepted the invitation because of his medical concern for Alex. The inevitable attraction between both teenagers forces them all to face their worst fears... Rumours are spreading around the town. Alex gets stared at as if she were a freak. People´s fascination with her can become dangerous.
international title: | XXY |
original title: | XXY |
country: | Spain, Argentina, France |
sales agent: | Pyramide International |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lucía Puenzo |
release date: | IT 22/06/2007, HU 22/11/2007, FR 26/12/2007, ES/PL 11/01/2008, BE 19/03/2008, UK 09/05/2008, DE 10/07/2008 |
screenplay: | Lucía Puenzo |
cast: | Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Peleritti, Martín Piroyansky, Inés Efron, Guillermo Angelelli, César Troncoso |
cinematography by: | Christian Marohl |
film editing: | Alex Zito, Hugo Primero |
art director: | Roberto Samuelle |
music: | Andrés Goldstein, Daniel Tarrab |
production: | Wanda Visión, Pyramide Productions, Historias Cinematograficas (AR) |
distributor: | Teodora Film, Cirko Film (HU), Pyramide (FR), Cinéart (BE), KOOL Filmdistribution (DE), Peccadillo Pictures (UK), Xenix Filmdistribution (CH) |