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Cold Water

Cold Water

1994
Drama
1h 35m
Gilles and Christine a boy and a girl live in the outskirts of Paris, their families are ineffective and distant and they lead a purposeless life. They steal some records in a supermarket but she is caught and sent to a nursing home by force by her parents. She escapes and follows Gilles to a house where some other youths live. They then decide to go south: Christine has been told there is a commune there, where artists live. So they head south sleeping rough... (imdb)

Directed by:

Olivier Assayas

Screenwriter:

Olivier Assayas

Starring:

Virginie Ledoyen, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, László Szabó, Cyprien Fouquet, Dominique Faysse, Smaïl Mekki

Genre:

Drama

AKA:

L'eau froide

Country:

France

Languages:

English, French, Hungarian
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Cold Water

1994
Drama
1h 35m
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seethruskinSeethruskin
Rated 24 Sep 2018
6
95th
When Up Around the Bend started playing at the bonfire I realized movies are actually the best
Rated 24 Sep 2018
deaddillydeaddilly
Rated 23 Mar 2023
80
72nd
Adored how this was shot. Great fluid camerawork that maintains a somber energy throughout. Avoids being melodramatic or over-conclusive, and ends up being a pretty heartbreaking snapshot of adolescence.
Rated 23 Mar 2023
feublofeublo
Rated 29 Jan 2020
70
30th
Nothing short of it's rebellious nature that becomes quite inviting to the outside, but just doesn't render as something I completely desired. There are some wonderfully captured moments to say the least.
Rated 29 Jan 2020
darrenDarren
Rated 27 Sep 2018
90
92nd
A film about youth done in a poetic way that isn't a drag. That party scene especially when creedence starts playin is beautiful. Just a frantic showcase of rebellion.
Rated 27 Sep 2018
jakeaestheteJakeAesthete
Rated 04 Jan 2010
86
86th
Great stuff from Assayas as usual. Some of the best cinematography ever (the whole party sequence is, like, beyond amazing).
Rated 04 Jan 2010
panzerwolfpanzerwolf
Rated 19 May 2022
60
35th
I felt like it started out stronger than it ended out feeling for me. It's got beautiful scenes, many of them relying on visuals and sounds instead of dialogue and it works for the movie. It's a very, very slow-moving thing, though, and if slow French dramas are not your thing, then this isn't going to be either. Loved those songs in the movie, though, they were soooo good.
Rated 19 May 2022
nathan_sNathan S
Rated 25 Oct 2018
4
74th
Apparently roughly autobiographical, this film has the feeling of an authentic and lived experience, a nostalgia for a specific period in time (the soundtrack is prominent), and a romanticized vision of rebellious youth and young love. But where other filmmakers would paint this with rose-tinted aesthetic, Assayas employs an up-close, personal, somewhat gritty and harsh viscera.
Rated 25 Oct 2018

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