When
Wed 14 Sep 2022
Sciamma’s sophomore feature demonstrates the writer-director’s adeptness at exploring the intricacies of youth. Zoé Héran gives a wonderfully naturalistic performance as Laure, a young girl eschewing and exploring gender identities through presenting as a boy. The warm tones of a Parisian summer are tenderly captured by cinematographer Crystel Fournier in this “intricately scaled film” (Manohla Dargis) that balances the pleasures of individualism with the struggles of breaking taboos. With Sophie Cattani and Mathieu Demy.
Also screening on Wed 14 September
Program
Oscillating Wildly: Céline Sciamma's Inclusive Cinema
Tomboy (2011) – Wed 14 Sep, 6:30pm
Ma vie de Courgette (2016) – Wed 14 Sep, 8.10pm
Petite Maman (2021) – Wed 14 Sep, 9:30pm
Being 17 (2016) – Wed 21 Sep, 7pm
Paris 13th District (2021) – Wed 21 Sep, 9:05pm
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) – Wed 28 Sep, 7pm
Girlhood (2014) – Wed 28 Sep, 9:10pm
About the program
Oscillating Wildly: Céline Sciamma's Inclusive Cinema
Although many only discovered the cinema of Céline Sciamma (1978–) with the international release of the extraordinary ‘two-hander’ Portrait of a Lady on Fire, she had already forged a remarkably productive career as a filmmaker, screenwriter and activist (she was a founder of Le Collectif 50/50, for example). Completing a Masters in French literature and attending France’s most prestigious film school, Le Fémis, Sciamma helmed her first feature, Water Lilies, in 2007.
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