Girls Can't Swim (Les Filles ne savent pas nager)
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- Synopsis
- French filmmaker Anne-Sophie Birot makes her writing and directing debut with the coming-of-age drama Les Filles Ne Savent Pas Nager, given the unfortunate English title Girls Can't Swim....
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- Starring
- Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussières, Pascal Elso, Marie Rivière
- Director(s)
- Anne-Sophie Birot
- Distributor(s)
- Wellspring
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 102 min.
Critic Reviews
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.Read the full review
"Adolesence can kill you," Birot has said in an interview. In a film that leaves the "you" intentionally vague, moment after moment she shows how.Read the full review
Birot is an engaging storyteller who can inspire luminous, spontaneous portrayals, but her ending is so drastic that it feels unearned, a note of bleakness struck merely for its own sake.Read the full review
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