RIP "XXY"
XXY, one of the very best films of 2008, has closed.
After only 10 days in release in one theater, the film has fizzled into a footnote after grossing a mere $6,634.
I bring this up only because Lucia Puenzo's haunting film about a 15 year old hermaphrodite and her struggle with sexual identity is one of the most deeply moving cinematic experiences I have had this year. This film deserves better. It is a sad comment on our culture and the tastes of the movie going public that brainless pap like 10,000 B.C. gets a huge release and fine, high-grade, thought provoking works like XXY die on the vine after two weeks.
Commercialism almost always triumphs over art however, and XXY is too hot-button and too provocative for mainstream America.
What a shame.
Click here to read my original review.
After only 10 days in release in one theater, the film has fizzled into a footnote after grossing a mere $6,634.
I bring this up only because Lucia Puenzo's haunting film about a 15 year old hermaphrodite and her struggle with sexual identity is one of the most deeply moving cinematic experiences I have had this year. This film deserves better. It is a sad comment on our culture and the tastes of the movie going public that brainless pap like 10,000 B.C. gets a huge release and fine, high-grade, thought provoking works like XXY die on the vine after two weeks.Commercialism almost always triumphs over art however, and XXY is too hot-button and too provocative for mainstream America.
What a shame.
Click here to read my original review.
Comments
I still cannot wait to see it. I think I would enjoy it, or rather admire it, and be able to take something away from it. I need some thought-provoking cinema right now. I really do.