Crossing Into the Deep End, Where Desire Is Fathomed
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
The flowers that bloom in the French film “Water Lilies” belong to a familiar cinematic species, the newly sexualized teenage girl. Being French, these teenage girls exhibit some notably different characteristics from their Hollywood counterparts; among other things they don’t text, snap their gum or deliver snappy dialogue like some peewee-league Rosalind Russell. But like most movie teenagers, they also weigh in closer to carefully fabricated adult conceits than to fleshed-out real girls.
The three 15-year-olds at the center of “Water Lilies” certainly belong to recognizably fictional types. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (2804 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 aprile 2008
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