This is, perhaps, one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in Argentine cinema, a film whose Technical quality is flawless; containing also some surprising performances delivered by Ines Efron as the main character an Darin as his troubled father. This is a movie about personal choices and the confusion of the sexual awakening, rather than a movie about a unusual physical condition the girl has.
The middle and most dramatic scene is were Alex and Alvaro have sex in the barn, but i think this particular scene is not important for the discovery of Alex condition that you can easily guess from the movie title, but actually by the fact that, given the chance to choose what to be, She will not choose to change, even against her parents assumptions that she would want to be a girl. Towards the end of the movie we see how she was rise being both sex at he same time as an addition, not a subtraction. There is only one scene that I believe doesn't work well enough, that is the personal and cold chat Alvaro and his father have at the beach, it is just too forced and unnecessary in a movie that is not at all explicit but actually beautifully graphic.
This is a fantastic debut for Lucia Puenzo, who manages cinematography and the technical aspects as a professional, delivering this excellent depiction of the ambiguity of sexual awakening were the choices that we make are the things that define what we are beyond physical aspects.
The middle and most dramatic scene is were Alex and Alvaro have sex in the barn, but i think this particular scene is not important for the discovery of Alex condition that you can easily guess from the movie title, but actually by the fact that, given the chance to choose what to be, She will not choose to change, even against her parents assumptions that she would want to be a girl. Towards the end of the movie we see how she was rise being both sex at he same time as an addition, not a subtraction. There is only one scene that I believe doesn't work well enough, that is the personal and cold chat Alvaro and his father have at the beach, it is just too forced and unnecessary in a movie that is not at all explicit but actually beautifully graphic.
This is a fantastic debut for Lucia Puenzo, who manages cinematography and the technical aspects as a professional, delivering this excellent depiction of the ambiguity of sexual awakening were the choices that we make are the things that define what we are beyond physical aspects.