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.
裝扮遊戲, 假小子, Dečka, Αγοροκόριτσο, トムボーイ, Berniokė, Chłopczyca, Maria-Rapaz, Сорванец, Muškarača, Pobalinka, Дівчисько, Giới Tính Thứ Ba, الفتاة المسترجلة, Erkek Fatma, טומבוי, Мъжкарана, 톰보이, Мушкобањаста, Klukanda, ความแตกต่างที่ไม่แตกต่าง
Germany
Berlin International Film Festival
FranceTP
Belgium
NetherlandsAL
Estonia
UKU
Greece
Italy
USANR
Germany6
Austria
Spain
South Korea12
South Korea12
JapanPG12
Austria
Belgium
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
South Korea
Spain
UK
USA
Céline Sciamma is a rockstar, childhood is trauma, and gender is a fucking prison!
the relationship between mikäel and jeanne was the most beautiful portrayal of siblinghood I've ever seen on screen, and makes me miss crawling into my brothers bed when I was scared at night. It's incredible that céline captures the essence of complex emotions, relationships, and the feeling of longing for something/someone in the most delicately gentle way.
How does she do it???
Céline Sciamma has this really weird/specific thing about all her movies that makes anything feel like it’s on fire. Like there’s this one specific shot in here where Mikäel is running down a path but the only thing in focus is a leaf and everything (besides Mikäel) is completely static and somehow it felt so LOUD. Lots of moments like that where I try and picture anyone recreating the shot but not capturing that same energy. This AND Portrait had little to no music and feel like they’re screeeaming at me. I think that’s beautiful and again, literally don’t know how she does it.
This was less of a review for this specific film and more of a note on her style but I’m gonna ride with it anyways.
y’all have no idea how badly i wanted to scream at his mom and shake her by the shoulders holy shit
gender is a performance and the script is passed down from people who can't explain why to people who won't ask. i think about the dinner scene every day of my life. it brings me to happy tears. the most beautiful sibling relationship i've ever seen on film. i wish i had a daughter like jeanne. i wish i could console a kid like mikael. i wish i could remember my childhood. i wish i could reshape it.
why on god's green earth is there a wilhelm scream in this movie
CÉLINE SCIAMMA!!!!!!! this has one of the purest sibling relationships i’ve ever seen in film :’)
JEANNE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS CREATURE ON THIS EARTH, AND I WOULD LAY MY LIFE DOWN FOR HER. MY LIFE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
I cried and cried and cried for the final thirty minutes.
When I was young, I hated being a girl. I hated it more than I think I’ve ever hated anything in my life. I was so deeply uncomfortable with femininity, with how I was treated like I was fragile, with how the world perceived me and instilled so much insecurity into me and so much judgement onto me. My mom made it really clear that she did not approve of how boyish I acted and that made my insecurities infinitely worse. I thought something was broken inside me. I used to lay in bed at night and cry because I felt so wrong. I used to wish I was…
Around thirty minutes in, I thought to myself that Céline Sciamma can practically film a leaf and still be able to evoke emotion from you...and then in Tomboy, she ends up doing exactly that! The child actors are adorable, especially Jeanne, but it’s also impressive how natural all of their performances felt — how does she do it.
