Tomboy

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  • Opened November 16, 2011 (NY; 11/25 LA)
  • 1 hr 24 min
  • NR

  • A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure (Zoé Heran) and 6-year-old Jeanne (Malonn Lévana), moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her Jean Seberg haircut and tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and decides to pass herself off as Mikael, a boy like the others but different enough to catch the attention of leader of the pack Lisa (Jeanne Disson) who becomes smitten with him. At home with her parents (Mathieu Demy and Sophie Cattani) and girlie younger sister she is Laure; while hanging out with her new pals and girlfriend, she is Mikael. Finding resourceful ways to hide her true self Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
    *Note: In French with English subtitles. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Zoé Heran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy
  • Director: Céline Sciamma
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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Slant Magazine
| Diego Costa

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. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Tomboy is tender and affectionate. It shows us Laure/Mikael in an adventure that may be forgotten in adulthood or may form her adulthood. Read full review

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Laure is pleasingly uncute, with a gruff demeanor that gives way to affecting glimpses of vulnerability. Read full review

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Zoe Heran as Laure/Mikael and Jeanne Disson as Lisa in "Tomboy."