Water Lilies
- Director: Céline Sciamma
- Writer: Céline Sciamma
- Producer: Bénédicte Couvreur; Jérôme Dopffer
CGiii Comment
Teenage girls, their traumas and synchronized swimming...
A morose, mind-numbingly monotonous trial of perseverance.
Never has teenage life been painted with such lacklustre colour.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who's slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love. Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumored to be a slut. François pursues her. Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favors, and soon it's an odd sort of friendship. Each of the three experiences her own first, and Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.
Cast & Characters
Pauline Acquart as Marie;
Louise Blachère as Anne;
Adele Haenel as Floriane;
Warren Jacquin as Francois;
Christel Baras as L'inspectrice;
Marie Gili-Pierre as La caissiere;
Alice de Lencquesaing as Fille vestiaire;
Claire Pierrat as Fille vestiaire 2;
Barbara Renard as Natacha;
Esther Sironneau as La vendeuse;
Jérémie Steib as Le masseur;
Yvonne Villemaire as La voisine;
Christophe Vandevelde as Type boite