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Playing with gender identity in ‘Tomboy’

By Ty Burr

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 02, 2011

*** Tomboy A hushed, beautifully observant coming-of-age drama about a 10-year-old girl who passes herself off as a boy to the kids in her new apartment complex. Writer-director Céline Sciamma is less interested in agendas than in what it means for a young person to lie as a first step on the way to a greater truth. In French, with subtitles. (82 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

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