INSIDE OUT: Boystown, XXY, The Secrets & more
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/INSIDE_OUT_Boystown_XXY_The_Secrets_more-5622.aspx10/7/2008
THE FIGHT TO CHOOSE
Stirring and poetic, XXY may prove to be one of the most enthralling,
memorable films yet to appear at the Ottawa iteration of Inside Out.
"It is a very cruel world that divides things," says director Lucia
Puenzo. "We are men or women. Everything's divided, binary."
Tall with striking eyes, the accomplished (and surprisingly young)
novelist-cum-filmmaker speaks passionately about the intersex struggle
at the heart of XXY. "The people that fight for places in between have
a very strong fight."
Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize Award at Cannes, XXY follows
Alex (Inés Efron), a recalcitrant intersex teen whose burgeoning
sexuality calls into question the female life she's lived growing up.
