Tomboy Trailer (2011)

Trailer for Tomboy.

In Tomboy, filmmaker Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies) second feature, a French family with two daughters, 10-year old Laure (Zoe Heran) and 6-year old Jeanne (Malonn Levanna), moves to a new suburban neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her Jean Serberg haircut and tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and decides to pass herself off as "Mikael", a boy like the others but different enough to catch the attention of leader of the pack Lisa (Jeanne Disson) who becomes smitten with him. At home with her parents (Mathieu Demy and Sophie Cattani) and girlie young sister she is Laure, while hanging out with her new pals and girlfriend, she is Mikael. Finding resourceful ways to hide her true self Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of summer would never reveal her unsettling secret. Céline Sciamma brings light and charming touch to this contemporary coming-of-age story, which is also about relationships between children, children and parents, and the even more complicated one between one's heart and body.