Our sex makes us men and women ...or both
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
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Contemporary, grave, spare and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Inés EfrónAlex
- Martín PiroyanskyÁlvaro
- Ricardo DarínKraken
- Valeria BertuccelliSuli
- Germán PalaciosRamiro
- Carolina PelerittiErika
- Guillermo AngelelliJuan
- César TroncosoWashington
- Jean Pierre ReguerrazEsteban
- Ailín SalasRoberta
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- Lucía PuenzoDirector
- Lucía PuenzoScreenplay
- Natasha BraierDirector of Photography
- Andrés GoldsteinOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel TarrabOriginal Music Composer
- Alex ZitoEditor
- Hugo PrimeroEditor
- José María MoralesProducer
- Luis PuenzoProducer
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