21st Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
XXY (Centerpiece Film)
Lucía Puenzo, Argentina/Spain/France, 2007, 91 min
XXY explores the painful search for gender identity of Alex (an outstanding performance by Inés Efron), an intersex* teen, as she enters adolescence and is pressured by her parents to “choose.” While Alex’s ambiguity is apparent and raises concerns for her parents and peers, her resolve to be her own person is undaunted. The rugged Uruguayan coast provides a stunning backdrop to the roiling emotions of family turmoil and adolescent forays into relationships. This stunning coming of age tale was chosen to represent Argentina at the 2007 Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. In Spanish with English subtitles
* Intersex means being born with a body that is not clearly male or female by the stereotypical definition of sex.
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Prada Handbag
Stuart Vauvert, Australia, 2007, 22 min
Having always been an outsider, a young woman finds her niche when she lands a job at a kooky drag bar full of colorful characters - a world of sequins, feathers and false eyelashes - and assumes the new identity of Prada Handbag.
Thursday, June 5 - 7:30 p.m.
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