Girls Can't Swim
2002
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Cast & Crew
Gwen
Lise
Céline
Alain
Anne-Marie
Solange
Critic Reviews for Girls Can't Swim
All Critics (34) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (10)
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April 15, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Birot has succeeded in making a movie that has some laughs, low points and high ideals.
August 20, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity.
August 16, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 -
I felt sad for Lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier, by Rohmer, for example.
August 9, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
Despite its shortcomings, Girls Can't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch, and it's a worthy entry in the French coming-of-age genre.
August 8, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/4 -
Compelling, beautifully photographed French import.
August 1, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
Audience Reviews for Girls Can't Swim
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Nov 10, 2008Two best friends that have been separated look forward to spending the summer together. All's not as well as it first appears though. Gwen is a confused girl who uses her sexuality to embrace some sort of acceptance missing from her mother and father. Lise is emotionally repressed, even being told not to cry after her father's death. It's a film that captures those awkward moments of youth, friends one minute and then arguing the next, but never really explores them. The film keeps the audience interested with the different twists and turns but mostly it is how each character deals with situations that become the most exciting part. Gwen's father is the most conflicted of all characters as he drunkenly tries to do what is right for his family and get in his estranged wifes good books once again. At the same time he is also trying to be a strict father to a promiscuous daughter and a father figure to a girl who has lost her own. Not everybody, but certainly for those who like slightly dark and awkward cinema.Luke B Super Reviewer
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