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Water Lilies

 

 

Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma

France 2007 / Drama / Coming-of-Age / 84 min / Color / Dolby 5.1 / 1.85: 1  Widescreen Anamorphic / PAL / In French with Optional Thai and English Subtitles



Alice de Lencquesaing, Warren Jacquin, Pauline Acquart, Barbara Renard, Marie Gili-Pierre, Adele Haenel, Claire Pierrat, Christelle Baras, Louise Blachere

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.

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