NAISSANCES DES PIEUVRES

A film by Céline Sciamma

2007 / drama. romance / France / 85’ / Color / status : completed / French

Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and
Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and
the violence of desire erupts for the first time, bringing them together and tearing them apart.

Press

«Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and the violence of desire erupts for the first time, bringing them together and tearing them apart.»

Washington Post

«An excellent directorial debut.»

The Hollywood Reporter

«With terrific poise and the crispest, cleanest cinematography imaginable, the 27-year-old French director Céline Sciamma has given us a very provocative and stylish drama set in the world of teenage girls' synchronised swimming.»

The Guardian

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