Water Lilies

Naissance des pieuvres

2007·85'

Céline Sciamma

DramaRomance

FR - French

Letterboxd TMDB #10818

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.

Cast

Pauline Acquart Marie Louise Blachère Anne Adèle Haenel Floriane Warren Jacquin François Christel Baras L'inspectrice Marie Gili-Pierre La caissière Alice de Lencquesaing Fille vestiaire

Claire Pierrat Fille vestiaire 2

Barbara Renard Natacha Esther Sironneau La vendeuse

Jérémie Steib Le masseur

Yvonne Villemaire La voisine