Synopsis
A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.
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Cast
- Zoé HéranLaure / Mickaël
- Malonn LévanaJeanne
- Jeanne DissonLisa
- Sophie CattaniMother
- Mathieu DemyFather
- Rayan BoubekriRayan
- Yohan VeroVince
- Noah VeroNoah
- Cheyenne LainéCheyenne
- Christel BarasLisa's Mother
- 100
Slant Magazine
Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
The startling power of Tomboy, a beautiful, matter-of-fact French drama about a young girl who wants to be a boy - and for one singular summer around her 10th birthday passes as one - begins with the one-of-a-kind natural performance by Zoé Héran as Laure. - 83
The A.V. Club
It's so much fun that as Tomboy moves toward its conclusion, the inevitable end of Héran's days as Mikael feels like watching someone die. - 80
Time Out
Tomboy may add little to conversations about gender or sexuality. It has everything to say, however, about that period of childhood when identity is at its most malleable. - 80
Village Voice
Tomboy astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered to the highly rule-bound world of gender codes. - 80
Movieline
Laure is pleasingly uncute, with a gruff demeanor that gives way to affecting glimpses of vulnerability. - 75
New York Post
A pre-pubescent "Boys Don't Cry" with a much sweeter tone, this thoughtful French comic drama follows Laure (Zoé Héran), a 10-year-old girl who yearns to be a boy. - 70
The New York Times
The story that emerges is programmatic and largely unsurprising, but these children give it messiness, joy and life.
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