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Why this pick
Sciamma again observes adolescent girls with tactile intimacy and restraint, trading the pool’s enclosed rituals for a volatile friendship group and a searching, quietly political coming-of-age.
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Why this pick
It refines Water Lilies’ visual language of observation and withheld feeling into a period romance where looks, gestures and the act of seeing carry the emotional charge.
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Why this pick
A dryly observant queer coming-of-age film with an unforced naturalism, following a teenager as she tests intimacy and self-definition amid institutional pressure.
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Why this pick
With close, sensory camerawork and a deeply interior teenage perspective, it treats sexual identity and friendship as lived, tentative discoveries rather than tidy milestones.
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Why this pick
This tender, unsentimental portrait of adolescent longing shares Water Lilies’ interest in how school hierarchies and private embarrassment complicate the possibility of connection.
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01 / THE STORY
The film tracks the sexual awakenings of three 15-year-old female friends in a middle class suburb of Paris over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in the solitude of the swimming pool locker room, blossoming teens Marie (Pauline Acquart), Anne (Louise Blachère) and Floriane (Adèle Haenel) come to learn the true meaning of arousal and the power of sexual attraction.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Anne
Floriane
Type boîte
Marie
L'inspectrice
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