W@TER L!LL!ES 4

as synchronised swimming, so for a film to use it as a metaphor for adolescence might seem risky. Nevertheless, Water Lilies pulls it off with considerable style, exploring the churning tensions which lurk just beneath the elegant surface of female teenage life. The story is set during summer, and based around a municipal swimming pool in the Paris suburb of Cergy, where the local synchronised swimming team is in training for the next regional competition. Watching the training sessions ...


















