Girls Can't Swim

Girls Can't Swim (French: Les Filles ne savent pas nager) is a 2000 French coming of age drama film. It was first shown at the 2000 Montreal Film Festival.

Girls Can't Swim
Film poster
Directed byAnne-Sophie Birot
Produced byPhilippe Jacquier
Written byAnne-Sophie Birot
Christophe Honoré
StarringIsild Le Besco
Karen Alyx
Pascale Bussières
Pascal Elso
Marie Rivière
Yelda Reynaud
Sandrine Blancke
Julien Cottereau
Dominique Lacarrière
Music byErnest Chausson
CinematographyNathalie Durand
Edited byPascale Chavance
Production
company
Centre National de la Cinématographie
Distributed byHaut et Court
Release date
18 October 2000
Running time
102 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$69,250[1]

Plot

Gwen (Isild Le Besco) is a teenager living in a coastal town in Brittany; Lise (Karen Alyx) is her city-living best friend. They meet up each summer as Lise's family visits. This year's visit is different though - Lise is dealing with her distant father's death, and Gwen has become promiscuous with boys - with the tensions affecting their friendship.

Cast

Reception

Stephen Holden of the New York Times said "Girls Can't Swim 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."[2] Roger Ebert gave the film two stars, saying "The phrase "coming of age," when applied to movies, almost always implies sex, but Girls Can't Swim has nothing useful to say about sex (certainly not compared to Catherine Breillat's brilliant Fat Girl from last year), and is too jerky in structure to inspire much empathy from us."[3]

References
  1. "Girls Can't Swim". Box Office Mojo.
  2. Stephen Holden (2002-04-19). "FILM REVIEW; Two Girls and a Boy Swept Away by Themselves". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  3. Roger Ebert (2002-08-09). "Girls Can't Swim". rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved 2011-02-05.


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