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She moved to the . This was the deep end. She typed in the URL of a website she had built in high school—a blog about vintage typewriters that she had abandoned fifteen years ago. She hit "Browse History."

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When you click play on that top result, you are not watching a perfect film. You are watching a perfect memory of a film. You will see the scan lines of a digitized VHS. You will hear the slight flutter of analog tape. And then, Arielle Dombasle will look at the camera, adjust her bikini strap, and say something devastatingly profound about love. She moved to the

Fifteen-year-old Pauline has just broken up with her first boyfriend. To heal, she goes to the Normandy coast with her older cousin, Marion (the breathtaking Arielle Dombasle). Marion is a recent divorcée who believes she has transcended simple attraction into the realm of "true love" and "intellectual connection." Over a few sun-drenched days, a triangle (really, a rhombus) of desire forms involving a handsome but vacuous windsurfer (Pierre), a cynical, sweet-talking salesman (Henri), and the innocent, observant Pauline. She hit "Browse History

"Pauline! Are you coming to the water?" Marion’s voice drifted up from the sand, accompanied by the shriek of gulls.

All of this messy adult interaction takes place under the watchful eyes of two teenagers: Pauline (Amanda Langlet) and Sylvain. Ironically, the adolescents emerge as the wisest and most grounded characters in the film, contrasting heavily with the hypocritical posturing of the adults. The Visuals: