The painfully spot-on essence of teen angst meets the spirit of Esther Williams in "Water Lilies." First film by gifted scripter-helmer Celine Sciamma nails the aching doubts and offhanded cruelty ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Invisible to everyone else, pinched, late-blooming Marie (Pauline Acquart) pairs with Anne (Louise Blachère), a heavy girl with a pasty food-court complexion. Cruelly cloddish on ...