Naissance des pieuvres is Céline Schiamma's first feature and is based on an exam script she made at the end of her Fémis studies. The title of the film is directly inspired by Violette Leduc's novel Thérèse et Isabelle. For Schiamma, 'the octopus is a monster growing in our bellies when we fall in love, a sea monster releasing its ink in us [...] so it's the birth of love at the age of adolescence' (my translation from the French Wikipédia).
I'd call it a teen sex flick with (almost) no sex, just three adolescents: Anne (Louise Blachère), who's very reluctantly verging towards the lesbian; Floriane (Adèle Haenel), who wants to try out Anne before going all the way with François (Warren Jacquin); and Marie (Pauline Acquart), who at first had the hots for François but then when he just lovelessly sheds his load in her, no way. Isn't adolescence hell?
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