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Tomboy

  • 20112011
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  • 1h 22m
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7.4/10
21K
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Tomboy (2011)
Settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, a 10-year-old girl decides to introduce herself as a boy.
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A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.
IMDb RATING
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21K
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  • Director
    • Céline Sciamma
  • Writer
    • Céline Sciamma(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Zoé Héran
    • Malonn Lévana
    • Jeanne Disson
Top credits
  • Director
    • Céline Sciamma
  • Writer
    • Céline Sciamma(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Zoé Héran
    • Malonn Lévana
    • Jeanne Disson
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    • 59User reviews
    • 204Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 6 nominations

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    Zoé Héran and Malonn Lévana in Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran in Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran and Jeanne Disson in Tomboy (2011)
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    Tomboy (2011)
    Tomboy (2011)
    Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran and Jeanne Disson in Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran and Jeanne Disson in Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran in Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran and Malonn Lévana in Tomboy (2011)
    Zoé Héran and Jeanne Disson in Tomboy (2011)

    Top cast

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    Zoé Héran
    Zoé Héran
    • Laure…
    Malonn Lévana
    Malonn Lévana
    • Jeanne
    Jeanne Disson
    • Lisa
    Sophie Cattani
    • La mère de Laure
    Mathieu Demy
    Mathieu Demy
    • Le père de Laure
    Rayan Boubekri
    • Rayan
    Yohan Vero
    • Vince
    Noah Vero
    • Noah
    Cheyenne Lainé
    • Cheyenne
    Christel Baras
    • La mère de Lisa
    Valérie Roucher
    • La mère de Rayan
    • Director
      • Céline Sciamma
    • Writer
      • Céline Sciamma(screenplay)
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    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Script written from April 2010. The main actress was found on the first day of casting. The film was shot in twenty days in August 2010 with a crew of fourteen.
    • Goofs
      After the fight over the attack on Jeanne - which Laure wins, we see Laure attentively dressing the graze on Jeanne's knee, and adding a blue-coloured sticking plaster (Band-Aid). In the next scene, when (the un-named) mother finds out that Laure has been passing herself off as a boy, she demands that Laure wear a dress, when they both go to the neighbour to apologise. Laure is sitting on the bed with Jeanne, but all traces of Jeanne's knee injury, and even the sticking plaster, have disappeared.
    • Quotes

      Lisa: [subtitled version] Are you looking for the others? I noticed you looking at them. They already left. Are you new around here?

      Laure: Yeah, we got in yesterday.

      Lisa: I'm Lisa. I live here.

      [pause]

      Lisa: You're shy.

      Laure: No, I'm not.

      Lisa: Won't you tell me your name?

      Laure: Mickäel. My name is Mickäel.

    • Connections
      Featured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Always
      Written by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier and Jerôme Echenoz

      Published by Because Editions/Copyright Control



      & © 2011 Para one & Tacteel

    User reviews59

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    A gentle film that deserves to be watched quietly & savoured with gentle people.
    When ten-year-old Laure moves to a Parisian suburb with her parents and younger sister, Jeanne, it is a difficult transition with a new neighbourhood to make home, new friends to find and a new school with which to contend. Although her parents clearly love her and Jeanne looks up to her as the ultimate big sister, Laure has issues of her own that isolate her from the world. Laure resists the stereotyping foisted upon young French girls and is content to run free in shorts and t-shirt as a tomboy and her parents seem at ease with her choice.

    However, when she makes her first foray into friendship with a group of children who will soon be her peers at school, she introduces herself as Mickäel and they happily accept that she is a boy. Welcomed as part of the group of boys who swim and play football, Mickäel also forms a bond of friendship with Lisa (Jeanne Disson), a 'regular' girl, who sees in him a gentleness and sensitivity that is absent in the boys with whom she, too, has kicked around.

    While never actually stated, the probability of Laure/Mickäel being (unnoticed, undiagnosed or just ignored) transgender is evident but writer/director Céline Sciamma prefers to take the gentler approach of studying social norms of gender types rather than a no-holds-barred sexual exploration.

    Tomboy is a beautifully subtle film that is dialogue-light but filled with the language of silence and unarticulated glances. The three young principals are confident and natural in their performances and Sciamma appears content to sit back and let them play their parts fluidly and without strict direction. The relationship between Laure/Mickäel and Jeanne is particularly sensitively handled with the role of big sister meandering between the two according to circumstances.

    There is little input from the parents, and they are credited simply as La mere and La père, but when the girls' mother steps into the scene her impact is immediate and stirs both judgment and understanding in the viewer.

    While Tomboy suggests questions that could be asked, it stops short of dictating the answers and, instead, makes a suggestion that we may accept or condemn and, though some may find the subject matter uncomfortable, one hopes those very few who are attracted to this lovely film are not of the camp given to prejudice and fear-inspired anger.

    Tomboy is a gentle film that deserves to be watched quietly and savoured in the company of gentle people.
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    • TheSquiss
    • Sep 22, 2012

    Details

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    • Release date
      • April 20, 2011 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Giới Tính Thứ Ba
    • Filming locations
      • Seine-et-Marne, France
    • Production companies
      • Hold Up Films
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Lilies Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €1,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $129,834
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,078
      • Nov 20, 2011
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,437,501
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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