L'Effet aquatique

Director	Sólveig Anspach
Year	2017
Country	France, Iceland
Runtime	1h 22m
Language	English, French, Icelandic
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Synopsis

Crane operator Samir (Samir Guesmi, DISTRICT 13) runs into young widow Agathe (Florence Loiret Caille, TROUBLE EVERY DAY) at a café in suburban Paris. She’s clearly uninterested in a relationship, but Samir is hopelessly smitten and signs up for lessons at the public pool where Agathe works as a lifeguard and swimming instructor. His romantic pursuit soon takes him to a lifeguards’ convention in Iceland, where he poses as an Israeli delegate (with a plan to use swimming pools for peace in the Middle East) and contends with a string of new complications. This final film by Sólveig Anspach (QUEEN OF MONTREUIL) is a quirky but sincere romcom about the extremes—geographic and otherwise—that some will go for true love.