'XXY': Elegant In Its Awkwardness

[Natasha]

'XXY': Elegant In Its Awkwardness

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081400889.html
8/14/2008

"XXY" is, in the best possible sense of the word, an awkward film. Not only because its protagonist, Alex (the remarkable Inés Efron), is just 15 -- that most awkward of ages under the best of circumstances -- but also because it dwells on sands of constantly shifting doubt and confusion.