Tomboy (2011) on Netflix
Ten-year-old Laure moves with her family to a Paris apartment. A neighborhood girl takes her for a boy, so Laure gives the name Mickaël and joins the local boys at soccer.
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- Rotten Tomatoes96%
Trailer
Plot summary
The summer holiday finds Laure, her parents and her younger sister Jeanne in a new apartment in a Paris suburb. Laure watches boys playing outside and goes down to join them, but they have gone. She meets Lisa, a girl from the neighborhood, who takes her for a boy and asks her name. After a moment Laure answers Mickaël. Lisa brings the new kid to the other children in the apartment complex, and Mickaël plays soccer with the boys. Invited to swim with them, Mickaël cuts a one-piece swimsuit down to male briefs and shapes a clay penis to wear inside.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tomboy (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Zoé Héran, who plays Laure/Mickaël, knew from the script that she would have to appear naked in one brief shot as her character gets out of the bathtub; her parents were present during filming.
