When invited to go swimming, Mickaël cuts a one-piece swimsuit into male swim briefs, and makes a clay penis to put inside. Mickaël becomes friends with Lisa and the boys, playing soccer with them. Lisa then introduces Mickaël/Laure to the rest of the neighborhood children, stating that Mickaël is the new kid in the apartment complex. After a moment's thought, Laure comes up with the male name "Mickaël". Lisa assumes that Laure is a boy and asks for Laure's name. Instead, Laure meets Lisa, a neighborhood girl. Laure sees a group of boys playing outside the window and goes to play with them, but they disappear quickly. Laure is a 10-year-old whose family moves to a new address in Paris. Tomboy was released on DVD-Video and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2012, and in the United States on 5 June 2012. The film opened to positive reviews, with critics praising the directing and the performers, particularly Zoé Héran as the lead. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, who moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holiday and experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mickaël. And in doing so, they save us.Tomboy is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. The threads in “Hugo” are: tinkering with machines, fixing things, everything having a purpose, magician’s tricks, dreams, imagination, film.Ī theme of the movie is that of children coming too soon and unbeckoned into our lives to mess up our tidy little frameworks, our neat little plans, to pry into our secrets and closed boxes and expose us. There could have been more camera angles and cuts in general, but on the whole, it’s an eminently watchable film, especially when the film history is delved into and recreated. The editing (Scorsese’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker) really needed to be tighter and faster-paced (with a few disjointed scene-cuts sticking out like sore thumbs). Hugo (Asa Butterfield) has an unpleasant run-in with a bitter old toy shopkeeper (Ben Kingsley) in the train station, who recognizes the boy’s genius and eventually takes him under his wing, but Hugo doesn’t seem to be able to keep himself from unintentionally betraying and hurting the already-wounded man. Steampunk (see also the newest “Sherlock Holmes” movies) is literary movement that celebrates the mechanical age of actual physical, clanking, whirring parts - hardware - that kept everything going, as opposed to our digital world of software and intangible “cloud computing.” There are puffing trains, vents, pipes, chimneys, sewers, as well as plenty of ticking and undulating gears in almost every shot. Hugo lives in the train station unbeknownst to anyone and keeps all its clocks running like, well, clockwork. Hugo is very good at fixing things because his deceased father was a watch and clock maker (horologist) and taught his son the tricks of the trade. At first, the story seems to be a misfortunate orphan-urchin tale in the line of “Oliver,” but we can’t help noting that this is no ordinary orphan. The all-British cast plays out the story set in a 1930s train station in Paris. What’s it about? It’s an elaborate introduction to a slice of film history. Hugo” is Martin Scorsese’s engaging adaptation of the children’s book by the same name. Chicagoland ‘Hugo’ shows a ‘slice’ of film history By Sister Helena Burns, FSP | Contributor
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