Tomboy
2011
· Movie
· 82 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1897
- IMDb #1359
- Rotten Tomatoes #623
- Metacritic #1066
- Letterboxd #627
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #321
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1377
- Metacritic Critics #1130
- Metacritic Audience #1126
- Kinopoisk #2643
- AlloCiné #1522
- Trakt #1420
Every rating
22–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 22, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 85, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A ten-year-old girl named Laure moves to a new neighborhood with her family. Upon arriving, she presents herself to the local children as a boy named Mikäel. She enjoys this new identity, leading her friends in games and even experiencing a sweet, tentative romance with a girl. She must carefully maintain this charade, living in constant fear of her secret being revealed as she explores her own identity.
Details
- Director
- Céline Sciamma
- Writer
- Céline Sciamma
- Studio
- Lilies Films, Hold Up Films, ARTE France Cinéma
- Released
- 20 April 2011
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $1.4M
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