Cold Water (film)
Cold Water French Leau froide is a 1994 French film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. It is about two troubled teenagers in France during the early 1970s. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shoplifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, allnight party. American rock music from the period is played prominently and has a very strong effect, especially Me and Bobby McGee, sung by Janis Joplin. Drugs are used, mainly pot and hash. As the party is winding down, Gilles and Christine escape even deeper into the countryside, searching for a commune where artists are said to live without electricity or running water. This is Christines idea, but Gilles reluctantly goes along. A jolting conclusion shows us that, as Assayas puts it, Gilles real life has now begun.
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