Synopsis
Cold Water (L'Eau froide, 1994) is a French drama by Olivier Assayas you can watch online on iFILM. Produced for the Arte channel's coming-of-age anthology series, it's set in the Paris suburbs in the summer of 1972. Gilles and Christine are sixteen, classmates, quietly coming apart — at home, at school, everywhere adults claim to have things under control.
A shoplifting arrest tips Christine into crisis: her father wants to commit her to a clinic with a reputation for electroshock treatment. Gilles is days away from expulsion. They run — into the woods, to a bonfire full of strangers their own age, and toward a night that shifts something permanently. Virginie Ledoyen plays Christine with a defiance that reads as both very young and completely exhausted. Assayas shot on 16mm with a period rock soundtrack that makes the whole thing feel like a recovered memory, not a film.
Watch Cold Water (1994) online on iFILM.
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