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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too much of everything

Sadly Over-hyped

Must See Movie...

The movie is the story of Laure, a young French girl who moves to a new place and has to find a place within the children group of her neighborhood. Dominated by young boys, the group counts only one girl who is going to become Laure's confident without actually knowing that she is called Laure. Indeed, Laure pretends to be a boy, Mikael, as soon as she arrives in the neighborhood. The movie is thus, centered on Laure's attempts to be look, behave, talk and act like a boy within the group while she is still hiding this double identity to her parents. This unusual plot is really interesting. First, it raises deep issues that may ring a bell to some viewers. The issues of identity, peer pressure, gender and community are raised throughout the movie. Therefore, Tomboy is the proof of movie's ability to raise personal questions in the viewers mind. Secondly, the notions of active questions and suspense can be applied to this movie. While the time passes and Laure's attempts to look like a boy are compromised either by herself or by her peers. Thus, during the whole movie a single question hooks the viewers: "is her identity going to be discovered?". Altogether, through its content and its form, Tomboy is a really interesting to watch if you are willing to think a little bit!

10 year Laure and her family move into a new apartment, while there Laure is mistaken for a boy. Laure decides to remain with this mistake as she assumes the role of Mikhael.This french film from 2011 is very interesting, as well as a very sweet coming of age film. It is very rare to see films that deals with trans sexuality in children, but this film pulls it off very well. This is mainly due to the main actress Zoe Heran, who plays Laure/Mikhael, her performance is so daring and brave,and I seriously hope that she has a bright future as an actress. The children actors and actresses are pretty good as they don't seem to be acting as they just seem to be acting natural. The relationship that Laure has with her neighbor Lisa is very sweet and innocent,it is a real center point to what makes this film work.It's a strong and heartbreaking French film. If this was any other age group it wouldn't have worked so well. The age factor really does makes a difference; as well as a daring script and lead actress. A must watch for French film lovers.

How it reminded me of my own childhood!! Laure obviously wants to belong to the group, even to be a leader and more importantly to be liked in this new environment. Sadly the simplest way to achieve this for her is to pretend to be a boy (she did not "intend" to do it but played a game facing the mistake of Lisa). Yes, she could have go play footballs a girl but most probably the boys would not allow her because she is a girl or exclude her if she wouldn't be good enough (when she starts playing she is still quite insecure but accepted) Lisa explains she wants to play but was "excluded". Laure enjoys "boy's stuff"because they simply are fun: driving a car; or practical: having short hair. But guess what, she is not expected to do so as a girl! I believe this movie has nothing to do with trans-gender. It is about how society since the childhood reduces girls (and boys) to a particular role or look and makes it difficult for them to have individual preferences. Neither am I convinced that Laure is "in love" with Lisa. It goes with her role play and it gives her some attention. Laure is going to enter in the puberty, she is still a child and there is at her age no visible difference between the body of a boy or a girl..which the movie really points out. Except this tiny one thing that she can still fake in her speedo. She even forgets it until she has to pie....The only way to "see" a difference is to take off her pants! She is even physically stronger. But she already has to fit into the box of what girls do and don't: wear a dress for example. Why??? I believe she pretends to be a boy because she knows that she can still do it, in a couple of year she will have to let behind her fake attribute (she puts the penis with her child teeth as a souvenir of her childhood) and become a woman. The image of her pregnant mother is reminding her of the real and only difference between genders. As I wrote, I personally was a Tomboy because I wanted to play the same games as boys. Remember the film takes place in France and you can ask the female player of the best french female football team (OL) but many still think that you need a penis to kick a ball there... Childhood is just the beginning of facing the sad reality: what you have between your legs is going to determine your rights and duties. Laure has the merit to defy the rule because she gets the opportunity...I feel sad of how she gets punish for it. I feel this movie is totally realistic. I hope and wish tit will open the eye on this kind of sexist behavior that adult unconsciously encourage. And BTW I found the 2 sisters acted brilliantly!

When ten-year-old Laure moves to a Parisian suburb with her parents and younger sister, Jeanne, it is a difficult transition with a new neighbourhood to make home, new friends to find and a new school with which to contend. Although her parents clearly love her and Jeanne looks up to her as the ultimate big sister, Laure has issues of her own that isolate her from the world. Laure resists the stereotyping foisted upon young French girls and is content to run free in shorts and t-shirt as a tomboy and her parents seem at ease with her choice.However, when she makes her first foray into friendship with a group of children who will soon be her peers at school, she introduces herself as Mickäel and they happily accept that she is a boy. Welcomed as part of the group of boys who swim and play football, Mickäel also forms a bond of friendship with Lisa (Jeanne Disson), a 'regular' girl, who sees in him a gentleness and sensitivity that is absent in the boys with whom she, too, has kicked around.While never actually stated, the probability of Laure/Mickäel being (unnoticed, undiagnosed or just ignored) transgender is evident but writer/director Céline Sciamma prefers to take the gentler approach of studying social norms of gender types rather than a no-holds-barred sexual exploration.Tomboy is a beautifully subtle film that is dialogue-light but filled with the language of silence and unarticulated glances. The three young principals are confident and natural in their performances and Sciamma appears content to sit back and let them play their parts fluidly and without strict direction. The relationship between Laure/Mickäel and Jeanne is particularly sensitively handled with the role of big sister meandering between the two according to circumstances.There is little input from the parents, and they are credited simply as La mere and La père, but when the girls' mother steps into the scene her impact is immediate and stirs both judgment and understanding in the viewer.While Tomboy suggests questions that could be asked, it stops short of dictating the answers and, instead, makes a suggestion that we may accept or condemn and, though some may find the subject matter uncomfortable, one hopes those very few who are attracted to this lovely film are not of the camp given to prejudice and fear-inspired anger.Tomboy is a gentle film that deserves to be watched quietly and savoured in the company of gentle people.