{"id":77226,"date":"2011-11-30T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=77226"},"modified":"2011-11-30T07:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:09:35","slug":"tomboy-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/11\/30\/tomboy-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomboy Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Tomboy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Celine Sciamma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy, Yohan Vero, Noah Vero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Humans are inherently social creatures, and the manner in which we each form a perception of our place in the world around us &#8212; and how our ego takes shape and form from our id &#8212; certainly relates as much to our interactions as any ingrained or telegraphed sense of social acceptance and duty. Capturing the fickle progress of that individual transformation, however, is a difficult task.\u00a0A tender and perspicacious look at the toddling steps of adolescent character and personality, writer-director Celine&#8217;s Sciamma&#8217;s French import &#8220;Tomboy&#8221; assays the gender confusion and willful but not malicious deceit of a 10-year-old girl. Against a backdrop of overly programmed &#8220;issue dramas,&#8221; this movie is notable for its strong foundation in character and wholesale investment in psychology, rather than salacious plotting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tomboy&#8221; centers on a family with two daughters who moves to a new suburban neighborhood during the summer break. At home with her parents (Mathieu Demy and Sophie Cattani) and\u00a0bouncy, six-year-old sister Jeanne (Malonn Levana, quite good),\u00a010-year-old Laure (Zoe Heran) is content, if reserved. With her Jean Seberg haircut and gangly physicality, however, Laure is mistaken for a boy by the local kids, and decides to pass herself off as Mikael. Standing out from the other rambunctious guys, Mikael catches the attention of Lisa (Jeanne Disson), and a tentative, stilted courtship ensues. As the end of summer and the start of a school year looms, however, it seems that the expiration date on Laure&#8217;s fib is finally approaching.<\/p>\n<p>For a film about the complex representations of childhood identity and burgeoning adolescent desire &#8212; pre-sexual, but still hormonally oriented &#8212;\u00a0Sciamma&#8217;s sensitive and engaging movie remains largely apolitical and nonjudgmental, in ways that it&#8217;s certainly hard to imagine any mainstream\u00a0American\u00a0studio effort matching. &#8220;Tomboy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t shortchange its gender identity issues, but neither does it whip them up into a cheap, frothy tizzy, wherein opposing camps are merely given platforms to argue &#8220;pro&#8221; and &#8220;con&#8221; positions for Laure&#8217;s benign deceit.<\/p>\n<p>In canny fashion, the film\u00a0also retains a certain layered ambiguity about the honest degrees of\u00a0Laure&#8217;s\u00a0impulsivity in assuming Mikael&#8217;s identity. When she gazes at herself in the mirror, and starts mimicking the manner in which boys spit on the playground while playing soccer, is it born of pre-existing gender confusion or a sense of displacement from within, or rather a curiosity about the way that boys strut and pose? Saying much more risks spoiling the film&#8217;s delicate beauty, but when Laure&#8217;s secret unravels, the manner in which her family also reacts is interesting and thought-provoking &#8212; on an intellectual plane rather than some axis of perfunctory conflict. &#8220;Tomboy&#8221; is heartily invested in its title character, but Laure&#8217;s deception also impacts Lisa, young Jeanne and the rest of her family as well, and Sciamma (&#8220;Water Lillies&#8221;) hearteningly pays careful attention to those characters as well, coaxing wonderful, naturalistic\u00a0performances out of her mostly young cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tomboy-movie-review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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