The Together Project
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2017
March 1 - 12, 2017
The final film from the late French-Icelandic director Sólveig Anspach is an irresistibly offbeat aquatic comedy about love, amnesia, and swimming.
The final film from the late French-Icelandic director Sólveig Anspach is an irresistibly offbeat aquatic comedy. When gawky construction worker Samir (Samir Guesmi) encounters prickly swim instructor Agathe (Florence Loiret Caille), he’s immediately smitten. But his unconventional plan to win her over—pretending he can’t swim in order to take lessons from her—proves more than a little problematic. Sweet without being cloying, quirky without being grating, this romantic charmer succeeds thanks to the interplay between the two leads and Anspach’s breezy sincerity.
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