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Lucía Puenzo´s opera prima has received an award from the Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences. Thus, it now stands as one of the most-award winning films lately.
“XXY”, a prize-winning film at Cannes and Valladolid Festivals, has now been awarded one of the major cinema industry distinctions: the Spain´s Goya Prize to the best Hispanoamerican film. Thus, Lucía Puenzo´s opera prima that retells the story of a hermaphrodite 15-year old teenager confirms why both the audience and reviewers have given it a warm welcome and it evidences that the local cinema industry has grown steadily.
Argentina is the most Goya-prize awarded Latinamerican country. The eleven movies having received the above mentioned award are the ones appearing below: Iluminados por el fuego (2006) (Enlightened by Fire), Historias mínimas (2004), La fuga (2002)(Chronicle of An Escape), Plata quemada (2001) (Burnt Money), El faro (1999)(The Lighthouse), Cenizas del paraíso (1998)(Ashes of Paradise), Sol de otoño (1997) (Autumn Sun), Gatica, el mono (1994)(Gatica The Monkey) Un lugar en el mundo (1993) (A place in the World) and La película del rey (1987)(King and his movie).
“XXY” focuses on Alex´s life, a teenager that has both male and female external sexual organs. Beyond the biological oddity that these circumstances represent, the film addresses the issue revolving around sexual identity construction and the difficult relation being built up with those things that are different.
It is a film jointly produced by Agentina, France and Spain and it is starred by Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Martín Piroyanski, Germán Palacios and Valeria Bertuchelli.
Lucía Puenzo, the movie director, is the daughter of the renowned Argentine filmmaker Luis Puenzo, who directed the movie “The Official Story”, the only Argentine movie that has received the Hollywood Academy Oscar award for the best foreign movie in 1986.
