Water Lilies

Revolving around two members of a high school synchronized naiant team and their relationship with a petite, singular girl, Celine Sciamma's seductive first feature film, Water Lilies, unveils its reminiscent fever-dream in the Parisian suburb of Cergy. At the late New Directors/New Films Festival in NY, Sciamma's puerile enigma was an inarguable highlight among some very strong competition.


It's after a demonstration of Anne and Floriane's submerged coordination, in a locker room, that Fran�ois (Warren Jacquin) encounters a completely nude Anne (Louise Blachere). Anne's frumpish body doesn't excite Fran�ois, but the teenage girl is left exhilarated by the exhibitionistic thrill in any event. Outside the school, Floriane (Adele Haenel), the naiant team's siren, agrees to allow the skinny, nymph-like Marie (an astounding Pauline Acquart) into the consortium area side by side time they practice, in exchange for a forthcoming favor.


The favour asked is to be a lookout of sorts for Floriane as she runs off with Fran�ois. The beauty's inability to go all the way with Fran�ois becomes a point of intrigue both for herself and Marie, who begins harboring a romance for Floriane. Meanwhile, Anne daydreams of Fran�ois deflowering her, going as far as to stand naked, eyes shut, in the locker room for the lean stud to discover her again. As Marie's toying with Floriane becomes a mutual affair, the stress between her and the insufferable histrionics of Anne's crush tighten like a vice, especially when Fran�ois makes a house visit to Anne.


Things get preferably randy, only the enticement of Sciamma's film is considerably proper. At a club, the fumblings of an initial kiss between Floriane and Marie fluidly mutates into Floriane terpsichore with an older