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With a name easily applicable to either gender, young teenager Alex's (Ines Efron) hermaphroditic physiology causes a massive identity crisis and severe emotional withdrawal. The social problems virtually force Alex and his/her sympathetic parents, Kraken (Ricardo Darín) and Suli (Valeria Bertuchelli) to move to nearby Uruguay. The situation grows increasingly complex when several friends of the family arrive: marrieds Erika (Carolina Pelereti) and Ramiro (German Palacios), a plastic surgeon, and their adolescent son, Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski), whom Alex instantly propositions for sex.

Keywords

  • Awarded Queer Movies
  • Doing Gender
  • Escape to Argentina
  • Female Filmmakers
  • Gender
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Only on Sooner (to delate)
  • Pride Month
  • Queer Romance
  • Africa
  • Coming of Age
  • debut
  • family
  • queer
  • the edge

Actors

  • Ricardo Darín
  • Valeria Bertuccelli
  • Inés Efron
  • Martín Piroyansky

Director

  • Lucía Puenzo

Drama, Queer

1h 27min

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Argentina
Spain
France
2007
15 year old Alex has a secret – through a fluke of nature she is a hermaphrodite, both boy and girl. The first honest film about the topic.

15 year old Alex has a secret – through a fluke of nature she is a hermaphrodite, both boy and girl. The first honest film about the topic.


With a name easily applicable to either gender, young teenager Alex's (Ines Efron) hermaphroditic physiology causes a massive identity crisis and severe emotional withdrawal. The social problems virtually force Alex and his/her sympathetic parents, Kraken (Ricardo Darín) and Suli (Valeria Bertuchelli) to move to nearby Uruguay. The situation grows increasingly complex when several friends of the family arrive: marrieds Erika (Carolina Pelereti) and Ramiro (German Palacios), a plastic surgeon, and their adolescent son, Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski), whom Alex instantly propositions for sex.

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