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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.

A teenage girl’s obsession with joining a synchronized swimming team masks a much deeper, hungrier yearning for the squad's rebellious star. This sun-drenched suburban drama captures the electric, awkward friction of first desire through quiet glances and shimmering blue water.

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