Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
Celine Sciamma has become a name to watch, having directed some of the most powerful stories about young women in recent memory. With this year’s Girlhood (which is on Netflix, and if you haven’t seen, it I strongly urge you to get on that now), Sciamma has cemented herself as an integral voice in cinema, but before that, there was 2011’s Tomboy, a richly told story about a child, genetically born female, who begins to identify as a boy when other children begin to get to know him. The topic isn’t taken lightly, but it also isn’t used solely for the purpose of causing grief. The film centers itself on a brave and fascinating lead who has a loving family, if not one who’s grappling to understand their child. It’s intimate, beautifully performed, and detailed as it showcases the ideas of gender fluidity and identity through the eyes of an innocent.
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