help wrote: Incidentally, I had the chance to see Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres) just recently (I am a big fan of Adele Haenel) and to be honest wasn't too impressed with it. I'd like to say I liked it, but on the whole I found it to be too forced and empty. The film had potential, that's for sure. I just don't think the story was handled the right way.
*coughs, splutters, chokes*
WTF do you MEAN? ''I just don't think the story was handled the right way''. The ''story'' was Celine Sciammas award winning script in her final year at the prestigious French National Film School, based on her own real-life experience. It only became realised on the producers insistence that she directed the film herself. For somene's first ever feature film (and bearing in mind she went through the scriptwriting rather than the directing stream of the course) I think it bears comparison with Lukas Moodysson's first post-film school's feature length film in similar circumstances.
That's alright Consider it a chicklit film. I haven't met a guy yet (although fish is halfway there) who really understands it. Pffffrrrrtttttt!