Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
Birot has succeeded in making a movie that has some laughs, low points and high ideals.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I felt sad for Lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier, by Rohmer, for example.
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Loren King, Chicago Tribune
Despite its shortcomings, Girls Can't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch, and it's a worthy entry in the French coming-of-age genre.
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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News
Compelling, beautifully photographed French import.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
A typically observant, carefully nuanced and intimate French coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it.
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