DramaRomance

Naissance des pieuvres

2007
★ 6.7 / 10
A love triangle forms among three adolescent girls who meet at a local pool over summer break and each desires the love of another.
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Reviews
★★★★★
The significance of French title of this film, "La Naissance des Pieuvres" which literally means "The Birth of the Octopuses", is rather obscure, so it is perhaps not surprising that it has been marketed in English-speaking countries as "Water Lilies". The "li...
★★★★★
A bit slow (somehow like a Sofia Coppola movie) but still a very captivating film about the discovery of sexuality by three teenage girls. The magic of the movie lies in its capacity to bring back many memories to how it felt like to be their age. The confusio...
★★★★★
When you love someone so hard it hurts, and flounder in the wake of mixed signals and confusing emotions. The backdrop might be synchronized swimming, but each of these three girls is trying to find her individuality amidst rising sexual desire, one of whom is...
★★★★★
Also known as "Water Lilies" this film tells the story of two girls as they struggle their way into the world of love and sex. This story is told at a slow pace and that works very well. It gives plenty of time and space to get to know the different characters...
★★★★★
These type of movies about young teenagers struggling with their own sexuality were something unique and daring and daring a couple of years ago but more and more movies like this got made over the past few years, making it hard for the movies to still stand o...
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