Sexual identity

[Natasha]

Sexual identity

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5/29/2008

" delicate issue receives delicate but forthright treatment in the Argentinean drama "XXY." Thirty-four year-old director Lucia Puenzo's debut feature centers on Alex, a 15-year-old hermaphrodite living as a girl with her parents in a coastal Uruguayan town. The family moved from Buenos Aires, we're told more than once, to escape the awkward questions and judgments of others, but those questions and judgments turn out to be unavoidable when old acquaintances come to visit, their own troubled teenage son in tow."