XXY the movie at Frameline - San Francisco June 25, 2008
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Wow. It’s pride and I just saw my first Frameline movie last night. The National Queer Arts Festival is happening. Queer art and film and love every where. It’s overwhelming, yet fun and inspiring.
I saw the acclaimed film from Argentina XXY last night at the Castro and it was packed. Coming of age meets gender politics meets sweet adolescent sex (I’m not a pervert, it was an empowering scene!) The main character Alex is adorable and gives a very real performance of an adolescent struggling with her inter sexed body and the ramifications that exist with in her family and the community. Overall, the film did a great job of showing how young people and the parents are faced with making decisions and that allowing the inter sexed person to make their own choice about what to do with their bodies is best. Or really what not to do! You don’t need “corrective surgery,” your body is beautiful. The film shared that sentiment many times though out, but my favorite was the sex scene between Alex and her 17 year old boy crush - they make out, she flips him over and does him up the butt. It’s radical!
Argentina keeps them coming. This is the third amazing film to come out of there in the last few festivals. Last year I saw Glue, another coming of age cute gay boy movie, and the year before I saw Suddenly, about lesbians who take a road trip down the coast. I recommend them both.
Alexa Shae
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