the significance of french title of this film and la naissance de pieuvres which literally mean the birth of the octopus and be rather obscure and so it be perhaps not surprising that it have be market in english speaking country a water lily . the lily of the english title be three teenage girl and marie and anne and floriane and who be member of a synchronised swimming team base in the paris suburb and and the film be a come of age drama about the development of their first sexual feeling . one feature of the film and perhaps unusual for a film of this type and be that it concentrate exclusively on relationship between the young people themselves . we see nothing of their parent or their teacher and and very little of the adult world at all . the three girl be very different in appearance and and be portray a be very different in character . the shy and retire marie be slim and petite and appear to be the young of the three . anne be something of a plain jane and floriane a glamorous blonde who be very popular with the boy . the three and together with a handsome male swimmer name francois and be involve in what might be describe a a love quadrilateral . anne have fall in love with francois and but he be smite with floriane and who seem to return his affection and although he be by no mean her only male admirer . indeed and not all of floriane admirer be male and because marie have a crush on her attractive friend . the film chart the way in which their friendship develop while at first it seem that floriane be simply use marie a a convenient excuse when she be in fact go out to meet boy while her parent presumably object to her date boy and but have no objection to her go out with female friend . later and however and we realise that and despite floriane image a the sexy and popular girl who be always the centre of male attention and she actually reciprocate marie feeling . the film reverse some conventional stereotype about sexuality . anne and with her short hair and rather chunky figure and look typically butch and yet she be the only one of the three main character who be unambiguously heterosexual and whereas the more conventionally feminine marie and the glamorous floriane be lesbian and or at least bisexual . come of age film be common enough and although most of them tend to avoid the controversial topic of teenage lesbianism . water lily and however and deal with it subject matter in a sensitive way and with three very good performance from it three leading actress and pauline acquart and adele haenel and louise blachere . the relationship between the character and especially that between marie and floriane and be complex and and capable of a number of interpretation . ( be floriane and for example and simply use marie for sex and or do she genuinely have romantic feeling for her . could floriane sluttish behaviour with francois and the other boy be just a device to hide her lesbian feeling from the outside world . or even to hide them from herself . ) this be the first film make by it young director celine sciamma ( only 27 at the time ) while on this basis she must be regard a a highly promising newcomer . positive .