Céline Sciamma

Abstract

Abstract This chapter presents an interview with filmmaker Céline Sciamma. Her debut feature Water Lilies (2007) captures the pleasure and pain of teenage life as three fifteen-year-old girls explore their burgeoning sexuality. The interview covered topics such as the motivations behind the decision to set the film within the world of synchronized swimming; whether one of her primary objectives in the film was to depict ‘how tough it is to be a girl’; the lack of an adult perspective in the film; where the film was shot and why Sciamma avoided placing the film in a specific moment in time; and the most positive outcome of making Water Lilies.