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Water Lilies

NR
Movie
2007
1h 25m
French
Drama, Romance
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
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6.6
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Water Lilies (2007) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
74

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Alice de Lencquesaing
Locker Room Girl
Claire Pierrat
Locker Room Girl 2
Cline Sciamma
McDonald's Cashier (uncredited)
Directed By: Céline Sciamma
Written By: Céline Sciamma (Screenplay)

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VM93 says...
3 years ago
The first emotional adventures and misadventures of three French teenagers discovering their sexuality. _La Naissance des pieuvres_ is a delicate but thoughtful film that reminds us how influential those precious formative years are in a person's life. Noteworthy, first leading roles for all three main actresses, who show through their performances their great potential.
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Saint Pauly says...
5 years ago
Like a pre-teen dancing alone at a party, _Water Lilies_ (_La Naissance des pieuvres_) embodies an awkward grace that's impossible not to watch. Like that dance, it has its flaws and occasionally falls out of step or misses a beat, but like the dancer the film is passionate, pure and welcomes your empathy with open arms. _Water Lilies_ is Céline Sciamma's first feature length film (it predates _Tomboy_ by 4 years and _Le Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu_ by 12), and is the story of a pubescent girl realizing she's in love with another, older girl Yet what sets _Water Lilies_ apart from other coming-of-age gay films is the broad spectrum of teen girl issues the movie addresses: there are story lines that touch on body perception, mad passion, slut shaming... _Water Lilies_ is a stunning first film that heralds the arrival of a voice that is, even at the outset, poetic and passionate at the same time.
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dgw
6/10  7 years ago
I can't shake the feeling that I watched this before a few years ago (before I joined Trakt) but forgot. Lots of déjà vu throughout.

But if I did watch it once before, it's not really surprising to me that I'd forget. Like most of the (admittedly few) French films I've seen, thi More
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