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Gwen is a young girl living in a French town on the coast. Every year Lise comes to stay with her but one year it seems that Gwen has grown up more than Lise...Product Identifiers
ProducerPhilippe Jacquier
EAN5038275100236
eBay Product ID (ePID)3959313
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleGirls Can't Swim
ActorKaren Alyx, Isild Le Besco, Yelda Reynaud, Pascale Bussieres, Marie Riviere, Pascal Elso, Julien Cottereau, Sandrine Blancke
DirectorAnne-Sophie Birot
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
FormatDVD
LanguageFrench
Release Year2003
FeaturesOther Millivres Multimedia Releases\Chapter Indexes, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Run Time101 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
ReviewsLos Angeles Times - ...Observant, carefully nuanced and intimate....Birot is an engaging storyteller who can inspire luminous, spontaneous portrayals..., Sight and Sound - ...Budding star Isild Le Besco infuses Gwen with the correct balance of stroppy adolescence and sexiness....A fresh tale..., New York Times - ...Rich and insightful....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...
Additional InformationEven though they grew up in opposite parts of France, Gwen (Isild Le Besco) and Lise (Karen Alyx) are best friends and spend every summer vacation together on the Brittany coast where Gwen lives and Lise's family has a summer home. But this summer is different because Lise's family isn't going on vacation for reasons that she won't explain to Gwen. Sick of her parents bickering about money and missing her bosom buddy, Gwen finds a boyfriend and mingles with some horny out-of-towners. Now fifteen, she's discovered that summer can be fun even if Lise isn't there. Then suddenly, Lise shows up at Gwen's house uninvited to stay for a couple of weeks. The following days are filled with unexpected surprises, causing the girls to reevaluate the importance of their friendship and the nature of their teenage anxieties. Anne-Sophie Birot's first feature delicately captures the intimacy and uncertainty between two teenage girls whose lives are teetering on the verge of adulthood. The performances by newcomers Isild Le Besco and Karen Alyx are impressive for the subtle shifts in mood they express between wanting to be independent of one another while still remaining inseparable.<BR>This film was screened as part of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2001 festival organized by The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.
Movie/TV TitleGirls Can't Swim
ComposerErnest Chausson
Sound sourceDolby Digital Stereo
ScreenwriterChristophe Honore, Anne-Sophie Birot
