Tomboy (2011)
Directed by Céline Sciamma
Ten-year-old Laure isn't like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure and her family move to a new neighbourhood, local girl Lisa mistakes Laure for a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Mickaël, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.
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Sciamma’s first three films—Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), and Girlhood (2014)—were all contemporary tales of adolescence and coming of age in modern France, told with frank sensitivity.
Una tardanza que, de todos modos, quizá tenga que ver con el necesario crescendo del relato, con el proceso de conocimiento, complicidad y arrebato de las dos mujeres, en una hermosa relación lésbica que la directora de las notables Tomboy (2011) y Girlhood (2014) muestra a través de imágenes físicas de celo y pasión muy verosímiles.
The simple, intimate plot is handled with authenticity by writer/director Céline Sciamma, who has here a major triumph after the positive impressions left with former works, Tomboy (2011) and Girlhood (2014).
French director Céline Sciamma has been well-known amongst those who are into European cinema for some time now, with her films Water Lillies, Tomboy and Girlhood.
In 2011, she wrote and directed Tomboy , about a young girl pretending to be a boy, and the identity unlocked as a result.
What an extraordinary achievement by writer/director Céline Sciamma (“Tomboy”).
Carax almost, just almost, fakes us out when Oscar then picks up his daughter Angèle (Jeanne Disson, "Tomboy") in an old beat up car, but she gets dropped off at a different home than the one he left that morning in finer apparel.