FilmCatcher: XXY interview- Director Lucia Puenzo

FilmCatcher sat down with Argentinean director Lucia Puenzo at the New Directors/New Films series in New York City to talk about her first film XXY.

With XXY, Puenzo handles such potentially explosive material with extraordinary grace and tact, probing past the sensational outward appearances to uncover the rich, emotional core of this story.

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[peaceandparty]

muchas gracias

for doing something

anything to make aware intersexness

and xxy happens to be what i am

so it was a good portrayal of possibilities for xxys and for intersex people and for many transgender people

we are all people but we are not the same!

peace

[complexbiology]

I'm sorry but its not as simple as that. I'm XXY but my gender is female. I've met XXY people who are all different in their physical make-up and identity, so please don't try and write our existence out, thanks!

[x3somevanillasex]

@coaster1robert a mosaic huh? like xxxy or what? you know some with klinefelters choose estrogen right? most are dudes. and yeah the character was not xxy, but dude you used the term hermaphrodite in your your other post. movie title is misleading but you yourself are mislead... take care dude.

[Accordeons6000]

Je suis un homme du Syndrome XXY.

[Zeanu]

@complexbiology This is a kind of coming-of-age movie and finding your identity. Not a documentary about a specific kind of gender dysphoria.

[Zeanu]

@5tristanvm You're beautiful and more of a uniqueness in your collective brilliance, stand up for your people. =)

[5tristanvm]

I got xyy and i hate being speshal it sucks !! :(

[paulibarra5449]

i think the director puted " xxy " to the movie for publish, but "akex," is hermafrodite,

well, i,m xxy man, and is not really that happend with the xxy men,

i have boobs, and female caracteristic, but never what have in the movie,

[mishakailana]

Just because most medical texts only report that XXY affects males, how all are born is important, there is variation in most conditons. So please stop being so defensive about Klinefelters, you can end up putting down alot of people who are affected by 47XXY and they have the same condition you do.

[mishakailana]

XXY IS a a beautiful film. The Title had nothing to do with the Character's condition. So please do not assume that XXY was meant to explain the Character Alex condition. XXY why was used because the writer's mother had a XXY fetus that she had been conned into aborting. When the writer heard that story from her mother, she felt it was important. Now their are XXY females, not just because they chose to reassign as females, some are infact born phenotype females rather then male.