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Cold Water

Cold Water

Olivier Assayas, 1994

Spine #944

Picked by 1 guest

Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Olivier Assayas

Written by Olivier Assayas

Cinematography Denis Lenoir

Edited by Luc Barnier

Cast Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Faysse, Jackie Berroyer, Smaïl Mekki, Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Picked by

Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs director

“I picked Cold Water. These two films together were transformative to A Generation of American independent filmmakers living in New York City in the early ’90s. They are cinema as poetry and as pain and as beauty... This one has a 30-minute sequence in the middle, which is a party that… like the end of this film, these are things that you can’t forget you’ve seen once you’ve seen them.”