Swimming Pool Movie Ebert

Swimming pool is a 2003 erotic thriller film directed by françois ozon and starring charlotte rampling and ludivine sagnier the plot focuses on a british crime novelist sarah morton who travels to her publisher s upmarket summer house in southern france to seek solitude in order to work on her next book.

Swimming pool movie ebert. A british mystery author visits her publisher s home in the south of france where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics. Sarah morton is a famous british mystery author. Von boehm rejects a typical biographical structure choosing to focus on those thematic similarities in newton s work as described by his collaborators rather than relying on linearity. With charlotte rampling charles dance ludivine sagnier jean marie lamour.

The water is cool and fresh and the day is beautiful. I m fairly bright but i can t conceive of a meaning to the ending that would adequately explain everything that came before and which would warrant the positive reviews of the film. Directed by françois ozon. She threw me a look i caught in my hip pocket robert mitchum s private eye says of charlotte rampling s femme fatale in farewell my lovely 1975.

Rampling has always had the aura of a woman who knows things you would like to do that you haven t even thought of. Swimming pool focuses on sarah a rigid and conservative yet successful english mystery writer. These interviews are the best elements of the bad and the beautiful and they dominate the first half of the film. She played boldly sexual roles early in her career as in.

Sarah s personal life and new novel take a dramatic twist when she meets her publisher s sexy free spirited daughter julie at his gracious mansion in the french countryside. You don t know what that means but you know exactly what it means. Frank perry directed the movie from his wife eleanor s script few years after his oscar nominated breakthrough feature david and lisa the film bears many of his characteristic tells including handheld camerawork promiscuous use of the zoom lens and jumbled cutting that is presumably aiming for a poetic or disorienting effect but often seems pointlessly busy. I am not sure what it is supposed to mean.

At each stop lancaster faces an incident from his past. Lancaster slowly makes his way to his split level home by travelling from swimming pool to swimming pool. As he has a drink with his friends it occurs to him that a string of other backyard pools reaches all the way across the. Tired of london and seeking inspiration for her new novel she accepts an offer from her publisher john bosload to stay at his home in luberon in.

However the arrival of julie who claims to be the publisher s daughter induces.