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Cold Water
Directed by
Olivier Assayas
Not Rated
1994
1h 35m
Drama
6.9
100%
75%
6.3
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When the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?
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Cast of Cold Water
Virginie Ledoyen
Christine
Cyprien Fouquet
Gilles
László Szabó
Le père de Gilles
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
L'inspecteur
Dominique Faysse
La mère de Christine
Jackie Berroyer
Le père de Christine
Smaïl Mekki
Mourad
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Le professeur
Ilona Györi
Marie
Renée Amzallag
L'infirmière
Mathieu Mardoukhaev
Frère de Gilles
Jérôme Simonin
Vendeur de dynamite
Laetitia Lemerle
Corrine
Laetitia Giraud
Christiane
Alexandra Yonnet
Copine blouson
Caroline Doron
Copine blessée
Marguerite Vial
Fumeuse
Julien Legros
Danseur
Lorànt Deutsch
Un étudiant à la fête
Olivier Assayas
Director / Writer
Cold Water Ratings & Reviews
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Sean Axmaker
Assayas creates a ragged beauty.... He appreciates the texture of time passing in a way rarely seen in American films and the expressive moments and the edgy mix of intimacy and disconnection creates an undertow of tension...
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Ian Thomas Malone
Assayas delivers a timeless slice of youth, powered by two emotionally raw performances from his young actors, as well as a killer score. Cold Water doesn't necessarily reinvent the genre, but it's a compelling narrative to spend time with.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
Assayas has a real gift for capturing the essence of these two characters and their equally aimless friends as they bounce from one act of juvenile aggression to another. Ledoyen keeps the film afloat with her devastatingly primal performance.
The Retro Set
Nathanael Hood
Autobiographical influences aside, the film feels a decidedly minor work
Dare Daniel
Daniel Barnes
This is a mature, fully formed work, seductive and bewildering in a way we have come to expect from Assayas, with his curious camera always moving, always searching, always wondering, always asking.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Cold Water is a sterling example of the teen movie genre as art cinema.
PopMatters
Michael Barrett
Cold Water (or L'eau froide) is a film that, like its title, metamorphoses before our eyes into a torrential rush and flash of light and shadow.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
Cold Water uses rock music better than any film of its time - possibly better than any film ever made.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Not everything works in "Cold Water," but there's a searching quality to its best passages.
Newcity
Ray Pride
At first blush, this compact, thrilling burst of romantic lyricism is at the very least a minor masterpiece, of a piece with themes, philosophy and formal accomplishment of Assayas' formidable body of work since 1994.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
What strikes you by the end of "Cold Water" is just how fast it moves, how swiftly our time spent with these characters simply slips away.
The New York Review of Books
Geoffrey O'Brien
Cold Water can finally be recognized as a singular masterpiece on the most familiar of themes, the sufferings and misfortunes of youthful passion.
MUBI
Bedatri D. Choudhury
Nostalgia seekers talk about the exuberance, the exhilaration, and the excitement of it all. Olivier Assayas, who grew up in the 70s, living through the aftermath of May '68, is not one of them.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Assayas has managed to create a palpable, restless yearning under his aloof characters, and their little flickers of feeling and doubt and joy are genuinely touching.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
Cold Water's worldview is bleak and apocalyptic, and it ends with the sense that pop music may be the only defense against a hopeless future. In other words, it perfectly captures the feeling of being a teenager.
Film Journal International
Daniel Eagan
Cold Water feels as fresh today as when it was filmed close to twenty-five years ago.
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