Water Lilies

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.

• paris, france
• forbidden love
• female friendship
• loss of virginity
• swimming pool
• coming of age
• locker room
• teenage girl
• underwater
• masturbation
• shoplifting
• teenage sexuality
• first love
• lgbt
• woman director
• synchronized swimming
• lesbian
• first time filmmaker