Girls Can't Swim

2000
5.9| 1h42m| en
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Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.

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Also starring Karen Alyx

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Micitype Pretty Good
Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
kenjha Two French girlfriends await their annual get-together at the start of summer vacation. The film is constructed in three parts. It starts with the story of Gwen, a flirtatious and perky blonde. The focus then shifts to Lise, a dark-haired and depressed teen who has just lost her father. The two friends come together in the final part. It's not clear what the point of this movie is. There isn't much of a plot. As the two girls undergo mostly mundane experiences, it makes for rather uninteresting viewing. Something out of the ordinary does happen towards the end, but it is so bizarre that it seems to have been added just to have a big finish.
herecomesrandall This movie was doing so well. But the ending just killed it dead.Basically the story is about these two teenage girls that are summer friends. But the summer the movie takes place in, the one girl Lise can't make it cause of family issues. Or money or something like that. The other girl, Gwen's parents are also having family issues. Money and the such. Her dad is lazy, blah blah blah. during this summer apart Gwen is growing up, getting with boys, smoking, etc, etc. Everything to this point is fine and dandy. I was enjoying the build of the characters and I like how European films are so much more open then American films. But in anycase all that is ruined by the stupid and pointless ending.(Spoiler alert!!) Lise finally makes it down to the beach house to stay with Gwen. All is well with the world for about 10 minutes. Then Gwen and her boyfriend are having sex with Lise in the room, so Lise trys to join in. It is implied a lot during the movie that this friendship IS deeper or can be deeper then just two friends. But at this point you see that Gwen is not interested. She slaps Lise, and the movie losses all sense from that point on. Not because Gwen is upset, but where the filmmakers go from there. They fight, they hate each other, Gwen wants Lise to leave. And instead of just having her leave, or even having them talk about it, they decide to go and have Lise start making out with Gwen's dad(why in every movie about teenage girls do the dads and older men all have to be sexual demons)Gwen's dad is into it until he gets her top off and realizes he shouldn't be doing this.("OHHH, now you realize it, moron") Lise is upset, and does what ever 15 year old girl does when she gets rejected by her best friends dad. She pushes him down the stairs and kills him. Then Gwen comes home finds the body, and Lise runs away. Credits role. I have no idea what the point of that ending was. What they were trying to say. But it killed a pretty good and open effort on the lives of two teenage girls. Far more open and realistic then most Hollywood fodder. But that ending was just so stupid.
bosscain ahhhh, nothing says french film as two beautiful french teenage girls dancing around totally nude,having sex,getting foundled by older men and getting scorn by said older men and pushing them down a flight of stairs to their death.Throw in a romantic little seaside french town,and you got pure cinema gold.Even without subtitles the plot is unmistakable.
rlcsljo Was this supposed to be the french "Marny". I don't know, I just know that the lead girl was pretty boring. When her girlfriend finally showed up, it was too late to save the film.I never could figure out where anyone was coming from, except the father and he was portrayed as being unsympathetic.The mother needed a bigger role, as the director found out too late.