it sound a if it should be a biography of claude monet but it actually a highly focused story of relationship between three adolescent girl on a french synchronized swimming team . there be no parent or teacher to speak of and no school and and boy be represent by one peripheral figure and the hunky francois who enter the story determine from time to time and always leaf confuse . pauline aquart be the young of the three and only aspire to join the team she so much admires . she kind of odd look . she not yet out of her adolescent growth spurt and have long and bony limb and big foot and and no derriere to speak of . she prognathous and sport these plump purse lip . after a while her appearance grows on you and from certain angle she can come to appear enthral . adele haenel be old more and well and more developed physically . what a glamorous figure she cut in her swim suit and saunter around and tease the boy and swish her long blond hair . but she not what she seem . or be she . i couldn not quite figure it out . the french be long on paradox and short on consistency . no wonder francois be always sniff after her . there not so much ambiguity in louse blachere character . she on the team too but she dumpy and plain and and sensitive about it and and have an intense crush on francois . blachere be a good actress and add to the ungainliness of the character through her performance . the movie deal with the relationship between these three and mean intrigue and deception and hidden feeling and and all the rest of what we associate with young girl who spend much time with one another . this be of course a tricky topic . it become tricky during the gradual development of a homoerotic relationship between pauline and adele . not that you should expect this to be a soft porn movie . the only nudity we see be considerably less than a turn on and and what little sex there be under the cover and sometimes literally . i do not think i want to get into the plot or into it analysis too much and partly because it suggestive rather than express through action and partly because it complex and and partly because i be not sure i get it all . let me give an example . okay . adele be the girl the others envy . she also quite distant and self satisfied . on top of that she be apparently schtupping every boy and man in sight if they can be of any use to her at all and from the handsome but dumb francois to the bus driver she want a favor from . she brag unashamedly about her expertise in fellatio . when pauline approach her about join the swim team and adele use her a a lookout during assignation with the guy . a superior and self indulgent narcissist and you know . but then the soi disant slut take the skinny pauline under her wing and reveals to pauline that she still a virgin . really . yes and really . pauline begin to draw close to adele and adele finally confess that she would like to rid herself of her hymen and she would like pauline to do it for her . pauline and now draw sexually to adele and perform the task with subdued relish . now adele would really like to get it on with a man and preferably old and experience . so she take pauline to a boite where she dance seductively with some guy until she follow pauline to the powder room . the two girl stand there star at one another and neither have overtly express a sexually tinged interest in the other . but adele stand so close that pauline slowly loosen her own rein and reach up and and kiss adele on the lip . adele step back and smile and and say and there now and that wasn not so bad and be it . and and then walk back into the club . that a pretty close description of whatever be go on between pauline and adele but what the hell be go on . initially and adele treat pauline like an irrelevant child and later like a close friend and finally like a potential lover and the minute pauline responds and adele walk off satisfied . be she use pauline the way she seem to be use men . do it satisfy adele to know that she now have another person in involuntary servitude . i do not know . i have slight louise blachere a the third member of the trio and the plain and overripe wallflower whose expression always suggest dumbfoundedness but who at least be thoroughly heterosexual and the first of the three to rid herself of that noisome virginity and but i have only skip her for consideration of space . should you see it . by all mean . ( just compare it to the typical american movie about high school kid . ) for men and some of whom have never penetrate the female mystique and this may give you some idea of what it look like in medium shot .