The French fall in love with tomboys, alliteration is all the rage and Leicester Square looks ill-prepared for the London film festival
Cherchez le tomboy
François Ozon's comedy from earlier this year taught us the word potiche, meaning "trophy wife". But now the cinema dictionary is working in reverse. Céline Sciamma's new film about childhood, Tomboy, is teaching the French a new word, and it is catching on fast, the director tells me. Her film has been a surprise hit in France, notching up more than 300,000 admissions (they measure their films thus over there, rather than in box office takings), but she has been even more surprised that the title has entered the national lexicon. "We used to call the concept garçon manqué because we never had the word tomboy," she says. "I always hated the phrase, so I was happy to use the English word but I was worried,...
Cherchez le tomboy
François Ozon's comedy from earlier this year taught us the word potiche, meaning "trophy wife". But now the cinema dictionary is working in reverse. Céline Sciamma's new film about childhood, Tomboy, is teaching the French a new word, and it is catching on fast, the director tells me. Her film has been a surprise hit in France, notching up more than 300,000 admissions (they measure their films thus over there, rather than in box office takings), but she has been even more surprised that the title has entered the national lexicon. "We used to call the concept garçon manqué because we never had the word tomboy," she says. "I always hated the phrase, so I was happy to use the English word but I was worried,...
- 9/19/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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