Girls Cant Swim
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Anne-Sophie Birot Initial DVD release September 24, 2002 Country France | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Duration Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 18 October 2000 Writer Anne-Sophie Birot, Christophe Honore Genres Drama, Comedy, World cinema Cast Isild Le Besco (Gwen), Pascale Bussières (Céline), Pascal Elso (Alain), Marie Rivière (Anne-Marie), Karen Alyx (Lise), Yelda Reynaud (Solange)Similar movies Isild Le Besco movies, Lesbian movies, Adolescence movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Girls Can't Swim (French: Les Filles ne savent pas nager) is a 2000 French coming of age drama film. It was first shown at the 2000 Montreal Film Festival.
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Plot
Gwen (Isild Le Besco) is a teenager living in a coastal town in Brittany; Lise (Karen Alyx) is her city-living best friend. They meet up each summer as Lise's family visits. This year's visit is different though - Lise is dealing with her distant father's death, and Gwen has become promiscuous with boys - with the tensions affecting their friendship.
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Reception
Stephen Holden of the New York Times said "Girls Can't Swim ultimately lacks the epic dimension of Y Tu Mamá También, but its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition." Roger Ebert gave the film two stars, saying "The phrase "coming of age," when applied to movies, almost always implies sex, but Girls Can't Swim has nothing useful to say about sex (certainly not compared to Catherine Breillat's brilliant Fat Girl from last year), and is too jerky in structure to inspire much empathy from us."
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