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Synopsis: In a small coastal town of fishermen in Uruguay, the biologist Kraken works and lives in a house at the sea side with his wife Suli and their aggressive fifteen year-old daughter Alex. When Suli welcomes her former best friend Erika that comes with her husband, the surgeon Ramiro and their teenage son Alvaro to spend a couple of days with her family, Kraken learns that his wife invited Ramiro to operate Alex. Meanwhile Alex and Alvaro feel attracted by each other; however, Alvaro finds that Alex is hermaphrodite and she finds that Alvaro is gay. But the troubled and outcast Alex has the right to choose what gender she wants for her.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Lucía Puenzo
Production: Film Movement
  25 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
86 min
Website
500 Views


- What?

- She was on top.

I don't understand.

She was f***ing the boy up the ass.

Clear enough?

It was bound to hapen.

That's enough Kraken.

We knew this would happen.

She can't stay a woman.

What do you mean "normal"?

- What?

- You said normal.

I didn't say anything.

Don't build your hopes up.

She'll never be a woman,

even if a surgeon cuts off

what she doesn't need.

When did you tell them?

That's why they're here?

I just wanted them to meet her.

I'm not crazy.

You talk to him.

What if seh wants to?

Sorry.

- What do you want? Are you a doctor.

- No.

A journalist?

I have a daughter. A son...

I've seen you before.

You've been here before, right?

Yes.

I don't usually drink but

it will do us both good.

Your son?

Adopted.

We're doing the paperwork

to adopt a girl.

The perfect family.

- How old is Alex?

- 15.

Want to see me at her age?

If you don't mind...

That's me at 12.

keep it.

Give it to Alex.

- Did you always know?

- That I wasn't a woman?

I still wonder how my life

would've been without the operation.

How was your transformation

from amn to woman ?

When I was 16 I started

taking testosterone

At 17 I had surgery.

That same year I changed my name...

I met my wife six months later.

The rest of my life

is sleeping in that bed.

What if I got it all wrong?

By letting her choose?

Do you know what my

earliest memories are?

Medical examinations.

I rhought I was so horrible

when I was born

that I had to have five operations

before my first birthday.

That's what they call "normalization".

It's not surgery. It's castration.

Making her afraid of her own body...

is the worst thing

you can do to your child.

What are you doing?

- You're looking at me differently.

- You're older.

Then you could've told me

why these people came to visit.

I didn't know.

- Are you coming with me?

- No, I want to walk for a while.

Alex!

Alex.

I don't understand.

- You're not?

- I'm both.

But that's impossible.

You tell me what is and isn't possible?

But do you like boys or girls?

I don't know.

Sorry about what I did to you.

You didn't do anything.

I'm not upset... I liked it.

- Really?

- Yes.

- So did I.

- You did?

- Then let's finish it.

- Never with you!

- Why?

- I want something else.

- I want something else too.

- Oh, yeah? What do you want

What do you want?

- Alex, it'll be our secret.

- Liar.

- I wont tell enybody.

- Get off.

Go tell everybody I'm a monster!

Alex!

Where's Alex?

What are you doing here?

I told you not to come here.

- Where is she?

- Beat it, Vando.

Your father's in real trouble.

Motor lancha.

Alex!

Alex!

Wait up

Wait, wait .

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Lucía Puenzo

Lucía Puenzo (born 28 November 1976, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine author, screenwriter and film director. She is the daughter of the Oscar-winning film director, producer, and screenplay writer, Luis Puenzo. more…

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