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Water Lilies

Original title: Naissance des pieuvres

2007 · NR · 1h 25m

Directed by Céline Sciamma

6.5

TMDB audience score
488 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • Christophe Vandevelde
    Type boîte

  • Céline Sciamma
    Caissier de McDonald's (uncredited)