Water Lilies is sweet and earnest and sexy. Adèle Haenel is kind of amazing. She's obviously great in Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu, but she's great in this film too, even though she was obviously much younger when she and Sciamma made Water Lilies.
Incidentally, Naissance des Pieuvres means 'the birth of octopuses', the implications of which strike me as much more sexual than 'water lilies'.
I watched Naissance des Pieuvres on the Criterion Channel. It was just about to get removed from the channel at the end of November, so I snuck in under the wire.
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