Water-Lilies

French with English sub-titles.

Adèle Haenel, best known for her stunning performance in Les Diables, stars.

Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who's slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love. Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumoured to be a slut. François pursues her. Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favours, and soon it's an odd sort of friendship. Each of the three experiences her own first, and Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.