Tomboy (2011)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tomboy |
| Original title | Tomboy |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Celine Sciamma |
| script | Celine Sciamma |
| production | Bénédicte Couvreur |
| music | Jean-Baptiste de Laubier |
| camera | Crystel Fournier |
| cut | Julien Lacheray |
| occupation | |
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Tomboy is a French feature film by Celine Sciamma from 2011. The film tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who pretends to be a boy after moving.
action
Laure prefers to wear her pants wide and her hair short. She doesn't look like a girl and would like to not be one. Laure is a tomboy . When she moves with her parents, she takes her chance and introduces herself to her new friends as Michael. She cleverly keeps her intimate adventure secret from her parents. For her family she remains Laure, but for the other children she is Michael, who fights and plays football and with whom the pretty Lisa falls in love. Laure savoring her new identity as if summer could go on forever.
When her little sister Jeanne discovers Laures double life, Laure buys her silence with a promise to take her with her when she plays with her friends again. When Laure is involved in a fight, the fraud is exposed. Laures mother forces her to visit her friend Lisa dressed as a girl and show herself to her friends. The children find the idea that Lisa has kissed a girl "disgusting" and force Laure to let Lisa examine her, whether she is a girl or a boy.
After this scene, Laure doesn't want to go outside anymore and prefers to stay at home. One day she sees Lisa waiting outside. She decides to go out. When Lisa asked what her name was, she replied: "My name is Laure."
synchronization
The film was set to music at Berliner Synchron . Christoph Seeger wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Laure / Michael | Zoé Héran | Derya Flechtner |
| Jeanne | Malonn Lévana | Amelie Dörr |
| Lisa | Jeanne Disson | Emily Gilbert |
| Laures mother | Sophie Cattani | Melanie Hinze |
| Laures father | Mathieu Demy | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Robin | Rayan Boubekri | Linus Drews |
production
The film drama was shot in August 2010 with a budget of around 1 million euros. This contrasts with revenues of $ 129,834 in the US alone. The film staff consisted of only 14 people. Filming locations included the French communities of Torcy and Vaires-sur-Marne .
Film music
The only song that was used in the film is the title Always by French DJs Para One and Tacteel.
performance
Tomboy premiered at the 2011 Berlinale . It was the opening film of the panorama section . It was released in French cinemas in April 2011. The German theatrical release took place on May 3, 2012.
Prices
- Teddy Jury Award for Celine Sciamma 2011
- Best Film in Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2011
- Best Film San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2011
- Best Film Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2011
- Young Artist Award nomination for Zoé Héran in the category “Best Representation in an International Feature Film” 2012
reception
Daniel Erk from Die Zeit judged Tomboy to be “sensitive and funny” in contrast to many other socially critical films. Its quality lies in its "calmness and warmth", it is a "relatively catchy, light-footed film". The young actors are "consistently good". However, it was criticized that Laures family is presented unrealistically, like the "decal of a happy family".
The rating in the film service was similar. Journalist Irene Genhart described Tomboy as "absolutely worth seeing". The film is pleasantly "calm, colorful and light-footed". Sciamma succeeds "wonderfully" in depicting the "search [of man] for his sexual identity", "mainly because it leaves the story in the vague: floating, sensitive and tender". However, Genhart also criticizes “that she fades out social reality a little too much in favor of her story”.
Ursula März , Die Zeit , summarizes: "This is how it looks, the sensual, intelligent, young, European cinema."
Web links
- Tomboy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Celine Sciamma about her film Tomboy Video on ARTE
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Tomboy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 496 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Tomboy . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Tomboy. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=12154
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tomboy2011.htm
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1847731/trivia
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1847731/locations
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1847731/soundtrack
- ↑ a b Film "Tomboy" - Boy, one summer long. Die Zeit online, Retrieved April 13, 2012
- ↑ 33rd Annual Young Artist Awards . In: YoungArtistAwards.org . Retrieved March 31, 2012.
- ↑ Irene Genhart: Tomboy. Swiss Cinema, Film Service, September 1, 2011.
- ↑ The Short Summer of Anarchy Ursula March, Die Zeit online, May 3, 2012, accessed on May 6, 2012