Girls Can't Swim

Name: Girls Can't Swim
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 19, 2002
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx

2002

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: April 19, 2002

Starring: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx

Summary: An intimate, unflinching look at the intricacies of the relationship between two teenaged girls. (Winstar Cinema)

Director: Anne-Sophie Birot

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 102 min

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Stephen Holden

Ultimately lacks the epic dimension of "Y Tu Mamá También," but its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition. Read full review

Paul Malcolm

The film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them. Read full review

Keith Phipps

"Adolesence can kill you," Birot has said in an interview. In a film that leaves the "you" intentionally vague, moment after moment she shows how. Read full review

Leslie Camhi

Falters when it takes a final, violent turn into melodrama. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Birot is an engaging storyteller who can inspire luminous, spontaneous portrayals, but her ending is so drastic that it feels unearned, a note of bleakness struck merely for its own sake. Read full review

Leighton Klein

While not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught, there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in Girls Can't Swim. Read full review

Charles Taylor

It's a cynical way to pass time, the cynicism that comes from being presented with something you've seen a hundred times before. Read full review

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