Lucia Puenzo – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

TELL IT LIKE A WOMAN – Review by Jennifer Green

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 Jennifer Green Anne Watanabe, Cara Delevingne, catherine hardwicke, compilation, Diane Warren, Eva Longoria, Jacqueline Fernandez, jennifer hudson, Lucia Puenzo, marcia gay harden, margherita Buy, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Mipo Oh, taraji p. henson, Tell It Like a Woman, We Do It Together

Marketed around its concept of stories by and about women, this compilation of shorts was co-produced by the non-profit organization We Do It Together, which promotes gender parity in film and media. The stories mostly revolve around women in crisis, which provides narrative drama but doesn’t feel universal or representative of women’s lives in general. While there’s plenty of diversity across the shorts in terms of race, ethnicity and nationality, the focus begs the question of why the film didn’t opt for more diversity in stories and tone. Being a woman doesn’t have to mean overcoming constant crises, does it?

Reviews

AWFJ Presents: XXY – Review by Beth Accomando

December 23, 2022December 22, 2022 Beth Accomando Argentine films, awfj presents, Film Movement, Inés Efron, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, Lucia Puenzo, Sergio Bizzio, XXY

Lucia Puenzo’s directing debut is a coming of age film with a twist. XXY is about a teenager who was born with both male and female genitalia. Alex has been raised as a girl but at fifteen, she’s starting to question that identity. Puenzo’s film questions the way society has decided that there are only two ways to define sexual identity. Released in 2007, it remains is one of the few films to look to an intersex individual with genuine compassion and sensitivity in order to foster empathy and understanding.

Reviews

AWFJ Presents: XXY – Review by Beth Accomando

July 8, 2022December 22, 2022 Beth Accomando Argentine films, awfj presents, Film Movement, Inés Efron, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, Lucia Puenzo, Sergio Bizzio, XXY

Interviews

Lucia Puenzo on XXY, Parenting and Sexuality – Beth Accomando interviews

July 8, 2022July 9, 2022 Beth Accomando Argentine films, awfj presents, Film Movement, Inés Efron, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, Lucia Puenzo, Sergio Bizzio, XXY

Much of Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo’s film work focuses on children and adolescence. In her 2007 narrative feature, XXY, the theme includes consideration of how parenting can ease or complicate a child’s challenging transformation during adolescence. In 2008, when XXY received its U.S. release, Puenzo spoke about her gender-centered film beginning with her intention in choosing its short and visually memorable gender-related title. She actually it chose for its visual impact.

News

WEEK IN WOMEN: Jessica Chastain to star in LOSING CLEMENTINE – Brandy McDonnell reports

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments jessica chastain, losing clementine, Lucia Puenzo

Jessica Chastain will play a troubled artist in the comedy-drama “Losing Clementine,” helmed by Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo . Sentient Entertainment’s Renee Tab picked up the feature rights to Ashley Ream’s acclaimed debut novel of the same name and brought “Better Call Saul” writer and producer Ann Cherkis onboard to adapt the screenplay.

Movie of the Week

AWFJ Movie of the Week, April 21-27: THE GERMAN DOCTOR

April 21, 2014June 8, 2020 Sandra Kraisirideja (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments Argentina, Cate Marquis, German Doctor, holocaust, jennifer merin, Josef Mengele, leba hertz, Lucia Puenzo

Opening April 25, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is The German Doctor, an unfathomable look at evil that follows the “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, a German SS officer and physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent living in South America following his escape from Germany. While residing with a Argentinean couple and their three children, Mengele finds a renewed interest in human genetic research. Read more…