Sentences with phrase «of tomboy character»

Kailey, tough and anything but a female doormat to the men around her, is the kind of tomboy character actresses crave, and Janssen effectively sinks her teeth into it like an embattled terrier.

Not exact matches

Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

There are also directors of fiction films that I admire, that spire me a lot and that illustrate my pronounced taste for marginal characters: Freaks by Tod Browning, The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, The Elephant Man by David Lynch, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch, Dogville by Lars von Trier, Spider by David Cronenberg, Amores Perros by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Time of the Wolf by Michael Haneke, The Host by Bong Joon - ho, Old Boy by Park Chan - wook, Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón, Tomboy by Céline Sciamma, Two Days, One Night by the Dardenne brothers and the very recent and magnificent I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach.

Actress Tessa Thompson, who plays Valkyrie in the superhero sequel, confirmed her character's sexual orientation after she was accused of being a «typical sexless Marvel tomboy».

I highly recommend going through previous nominees for Best Limited Film for there you'll not only find more transgressive films about the white LGBT experience (Hedwig and the Angry Inch & Mysterious Skin, Velvet Goldmine & Beautiful Thing, Tomboy & Concussion) but especially films about the very type of characters I highlighted this past month.