Jordache Wee Screenwriter Céline Sciamma made her first debut as director in this film, opening up various opportunities to explore the storyline and future projects. Pauline Acquart and Louise Blachère shows their efforts grabbing the audiences in full attention.The relationships revolved within a local swimming pool in a Parisian suburb where the local synchronized swimming team practices.The story encounters Marie (Pauline Acquart)and Blonde Floriane (Adele Haenel), both skilled swimmer and athlete with raging hormones. And doing things like many teenagers would do.Naissance des Pieuvres, literally translated means The Birth of Octopi, is described as one of the slipperiest teenage drama.

Fictitious If you were looking for some kind of voyeuristic, sexy, lesbian teen drama...zip up your pants because this isn't it. Or (for whatever reason) you were looking for a synchronized swimming movie, this isn't it either.The plot is a familiar one: 3 very different teenage girls in a French suburb deal with their sexuality and the loss of innocence. I thought it was a brilliant touch to not include any parents or adults in this movie. There's no "unique" way to approach the subject matter because anyone who has ever been a teenager has lived through this movie...all the uncertainty, the awkwardness, the naivety, the myths of growing up. The whole point of a coming-of-age film is that its a predictable cliché...because that's exactly what adolescence is.There's no unpretentious way to say this: Naissance des Pieuvres isn't a movie at all, it's a film. And a beautiful one, at that. There's this looseness about the way the movie rolls that feels so natural...it's what all coming-of-age films should be like. Another reviewer here mentioned that it had a very Sofia Coppola feel and that's exactly right. That feeling of dreamy teenage idleness is persistent and strangely keeps the film together. There are few movies that make you feel like floating and sinking at the same time. Water Lilies did it for me. Every scene and every sound (the soundtrack is BRILLIANT) in this film was so deliberate and so beautifully acted.If absolutely nothing convinces you, at least watch the last 5 minutes of this movie. I've replayed it at least a dozen times and I don't completely understand why. It's hypnotic and arguably one of the best movie endings of modern film.9/10.

rubiflores143 I don't usually write reviews but I felt the need to point out that through out this movie I kept murmuring: "This isn't right", "No!", "Why?", and many things along this line. I'm not trying to imply that this was a bad movie but if you are an American, don't expect this to be something Universal Studios would film. With every next scene I would think: How can they film this? But that may be my American mind. I'll give it a neutral 5 rate, since I'm still unsure how I feel about it.

luisevdh From the initial frame to the very last one, this film bring us into the world of puberty at the rhythm of a ballet. The elegance of the camera moves around one of today's most controversial subjects, and it pictures the lives of two young teenagers in a public swimming pool. Three 15 yo girls living in the suburb of Cergy-Pontoise. A beautiful Floriane with a great swimming talent, Marie and an overweight friend named Marie, who has a crash for male swimmer. Fear and desires of three teenagers in a wonderful painting of synchronized swimming.The camera moves around the subjects as a voyeur, or a floating ghost. It enters the locker room, the swimming pool, the showers and the house parties.