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Well-acted: Ines Efron and Martin Piroyansky
10 April 2012

Argentinian writer-director Lucia Puenza rightly won prizes at Cannes and several other festivals for this delicate and sensitive tale of a young girl whose indeterminate gender has exiled her troubled family to a small island community.

The girl is beautifully played by Ines Efron, with a naturalness that relieves the film of all sensationalism as she comes of age and has to decide whether to be a woman or a man. Ricardo Darin is her worried father who doesn’t want to lose his little girl for ever and Martin Piroyansky is the visiting young boy who likes her a bit too much for everyone’s comfort.

Fine performances all round in an admirably thoughtful film.

XXY
Cert: 15

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