Tomboy

Name: Tomboy
Director: Céline Sciamma
Released: 2011

Céline Sciamma

2011

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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Village Voice
Tomboy astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered to the highly rule-bound world of gender codes.
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Movieline
Laure is pleasingly uncute, with a gruff demeanor that gives way to affecting glimpses of vulnerability.
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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.
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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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