Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
paris, france
forbidden love
female friendship
loss of virginity
swimming pool
coming of age
locker room
teenage girl
underwater
masturbation
shoplifting
teenage sexuality
first love
lgbt
woman director
synchronized swimming
lesbian
first time filmmaker