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Les filles ne savent pas nager (2000)
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18 October 2000 (France) morePlot:
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Excellent Evoking of Teens on a Serious Summer Vaction moreCast
(Credited cast) | Isild Le Besco | ... | Gwen |
| Karen Alyx | ... | Lise |
| Pascale Bussières | ... | Céline |
| Pascal Elso | ... | Alain |
| Marie Rivière | ... | Anne-Marie |
 | Yelda Reynaud | ... | Solange |
| Sandrine Blancke | ... | Vivianne |
| Julien Cottereau | ... | Frédo |
| Dominique Lacarrière | ... | Rose |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| France Besson | ||
| Damien Boenwec | ||
| Yves Claessens | ||
| Sylvie Contant | ||
| Youenn Dorval | ||
| Julien Honoré | ||
| Ronan Joncour | ||
| Dorothée Lanchier | ||
| Raphaël Le Brun | ||
| Séverine LeBrun | ||
| Patrice Lelgouarch | ||
| Melanie Mathurin | ||
| Anne-Sophie Plattner | ||
| David Savina | ||
| René Tanneau | ||
| Sterenn Ural | ||
| Marinca Villanova | ||
| Patrick Yvenou | ||
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"Girls Can't Swim (Les filles ne savent pas nager)" gets a lot right about teens, in a debut by writer/director Anne-Sophie Birot:
The endless summer feeling of life Down the Shore (only here the Shore is at Brittany so there's no Bruce Springsteen music, let alone any beach music).
The implied class tensions between townies and seasonals.
The restless rebellion of adolescence, particularly as bursting sensuality.
The casual back-and-forth between parents and teens as the kids alternate between neediness and independence, complicated by the parents' own financial and relationship problems.
And most particularly the exaggerated passions of teen girl friendship.
But the aimlessness of summer vacation is mimicked too much in the pacing, with an abrupt culmination that's not fair to the characters. I must have missed the explanation for the title.
Clearly Eric Rohmer's "Pauline on the Beach" has haunted today's French women filmmakers as this is the second such movie I've seen in a year that feels like an angry response to that sage putting a teen girl amidst adult sharks, after "Fat Girl (a ma soeur)."
(originally written 5/11/2002)