TOMBOY
The Kenneth Lattman Foundation Lecture Series returns with Celine Sciamma's tender and unique coming-of-age story TOMBOY. At a time when bullying is an epidemic, TOMBOY is a brave and propitious exploration of gender identity and adolescence. Following her first feature WATER LILIES, a film about girls coming-of-age, Sciamma complicates matters by focusing on a girl who wants to be a boy and offers a story that is surprisingly novel and heartbreakingly universal. The delicacy, honesty, and candor of TOMBOY makes it a film not to be missed and one that everyone should see!
"TOMBOY reveals a side of pre-adolescence rarely (if ever) depicted on the big screen, yet it never feels like a curiosity piece."
-Jennie Punter, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Sciamma has wound back the clock to childhood to show us, with taste and sensitivity, something we have not seen before."
-Mick La Salle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"TOMBOY astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered tot he highly rule-bound world of gender codes."
-Melissa Anderson, VILLAGE VOICE
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood. With her Jean Seberg haircut and tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself as Michael. Sciamma's adept direction along with revelatory performances from her young cast, which recall Francois Truffaut's films about childhood, produce a film that manages to never hit a wrong note while exploring a hugely complex topic. Laure/Michael's story is one that has never really been told on film and will hopefully be one that captures the public's attention.
Please join us for a special presentation of TOMBOY - Thursday, January 26 at 7PM - followed by a discussion with Dr. Steve Butterman, Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Miami, and Dr. Gema Perez-Sanchez, Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.