Reviewed at Planet Hollywood, Paris, April 28, 2007. (In Cannes Film Festival -- Un Certain Regard). Running time: 85 MIN. With Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachere, Adele Haenel, Warren Jacquin ...

Movie review: "Water Lilies," Céline Sciamma's drama about three adolescent girls linked by synchronized swimming, is insightful but frustratingly constrained in scope.

Water Lilies (whose French title, Naissance des pieuvres , translates literally but less poetically as Birth of the Octopuses) begins brilliantly as it introduces us to its three central ...

Water Lilies: Drama. Starring Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachere and Adele Haenel. Directed by Celine Sciamma. (Not rated. 85 minutes. In French with English titles. At Bay Area theaters. For ...

Water Lilies NEW YORK -- This French feature takes a dispassionate look at teenage lesbianism and female rites-of-passage issues. The clinical approach, while short on emotional displays ...

If high school were a French movie, it’d be “Water Lilies,” a portrait of sexual angst in the underage-girl set. Watch a sex siren perform aqua-acrobatics and her sullen suitor pout for 80 ...

Céline Sciamma’s confident debut draws a love triangle between two outcasts—the goofball Anne (Louise Blachère) and the bad girl Floriane (Adèle Haenel)—and the gawky Marie (Pauline Acquart).

Reviewed at Planet Hollywood, Paris, April 28, 2007. (In Cannes Film Festival -- Un Certain Regard). Running time: 85 MIN. With Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachere, Adele Haenel, Warren Jacquin ...