Céline Sciamma's latest film is light-hearted and easy on the senses. It is a linear, quiet depiction of a rather odd little tale about a young girl passing herself as a boy to his new friends at a Paris suburb they have just moved to. Why she resorts to that is never explained (all the better for it), but even before the big reveal, the androgyny of Laure (Zoé Héran) will keep you second-guessing as to her gender (the name
is the reveal ... and no this is not a spoiler, it happens about 10 minutes in).
Nothing much really happens, as Laure (now called Mikael to 'his' new friends) learns to play football like a boy, to fight like a boy and in one hilarious scene moulds herself a penis using play-doh (for the sake of simplicity I will use the feminine third person pronoun throughout). Her breasts still not formed, she can take off her shirt and be one of the boys.
