Water Lilies

Naissance des pieuvres

France

2007

85 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Bénédicte Couvreur, Jérôme Dopffer

CAST Adèle Haenel, Louise Blachère, Pauline Acquart, Warren Jacquin, Alice de Lencquesaing, Claire Pierrat, Barbara Renard, Esther Sironneau, Jérémie Steib, Yvonne Villemaire, Christophe Vandevelde

MUSIC Jean-Baptiste de Laubier

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), London (French), Toronto (Vanguard), Rotterdam (Sturm und Drang), San Francisco (New Directors), Athens, !F Istanbul

Synopsis

Three 15-year-old girls living in the ultra-modern Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise find the dynamics of their relationships gradually beginning to shift in first-time filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s intimate look into the world of synchronized swimming. Floriane (Adele Haenel) is a beautiful blonde with a perfect body and remarkable talent in the pool. Marie (Pauline Acquart) is something of a tomboy taken to water, and Anne (Louise Blachere) is an overweight-but-outgoing swimmer whose crush on a male swimmer (who only has eyes for the physically flawless Floriane) is about to forever change the way these three disparate souls relate to one another.

Director

Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma (1980) is a French screenwriter and film director. She studied French literature at first, then completed courses in screenwriting at the Paris film school La Femis. She deals with both film and TV productions. Her debut film was Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres, 2007), which was successful at many international festivals. She also shot the short film Pauline (2010) and the feature-length film Tomboy (2011). She has also written several screenplays. —Zlin Film Festival

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5 o'clock coffee

7Feb12

The swimming-pool first representing unbreathing situations, always enclosed into the fake and hard world of the synchronized swimming, turns out to bring some relief at the end of the film, showed in all its large extension for the first time . Marie washing her mouth in the swimming-pool afetr kissing Floriane was one of the strongest and significative scenes.

chanandre

20Dec11

Soundtrack that does include Vitalic? Gotta love love it! Must see it!

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2Dec11

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Benoit

23Mar11

I hadn't liked a french movie since a while. This one is astonishing ! If you liked Virgin Suicides, you should find the same king of atmosphere in this one.