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The Olympique Lyonnais women's football team has over the years become one of the best football teams in the world. From training sessions to competitive matches, from doubts to victories, this documentary takes an up-close look at these exceptional players and their daily lives. An invitation to see women's sports and the place they hold in professional sports under a new light: a universe where the values of respect and open-mindedness are indispensable mainstays in working towards equality.
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Like most critics, I gave this docu-womentary a 'like' even before I saw it because it's about France's best women's soccer team (Olympique de Lyon) and I 100% back women. And I did like the movie. I liked it despite the fact this puff piece is just a messy pile of themes (women's soccer history, press interviews, school apparences, young players' school, women's equality, training...) based on a team's quest to win grand slam of titles. This thread might've unified the sloppily edited collage, except the filmmaker's didn't have the rights to the games so we get to watch the locker room scenes before and after, but precious little sport. Look, _Les Joueuses_ is probably a really good film to show a young girl interested in sports as a way to motivate her and show here representation, but for the rest of us, were going to have to like it just because...