Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Wednesday 13 December

Tomboy (Sciamma, 2011)

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Dan Slevin
Dec 13, 2023
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From my collection of original writing from 2011, here’s a review of one of the most influential films of the decade.

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Sciamma has already been featured in these pages thanks to Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Much more subtle, much more open to interpretation, is Céline Sciamma’s quiet little puzzle Tomboy. Ten year old Laure (Zoé Héran) moves with her parent…

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