Moving ‘Tomboy’ explores youth, gender
From the first shot of its ten-year-old protagonist, “Tomboy” is a study in gender identity and expectations. Young Zoé Héran grounds the film with an amazing performance as the lead character, who moves to a new neighborhood and self-identifies to the local kids as Mikael, “the new boy in the building.” But at home, Mikael is Laure, and writer-director Céline Sciamma (“Water Lilies”) includes a full-frontal shot of the female-bodied child emerging from the bathtub to show us the conflict between the character’s two identities. Laure has an overworked father (Mathieu Demy), a… >>
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