Swimming Pool Movie Recap

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 recap. Swimming pool is rated r. July 21 2003 rating. 2 5 4 rene rodriguez. The movie stops short of a complete role reversal but before swimming pool comes to a close sarah has smoked pot and casually offered her body to a handyman and julie has put on some clothes.

Swimming pool is more of a conventional thriller than those two or if it is unconventional that is a development that doesn t affect the telling of most of the story. However the arrival of julie who claims to be the publisher s daughter induces. After it is over you will want to go back and think things through again and i can help you by suggesting there is one and only one interpretation that resolves all of the. Swimming pool is not as psychologically complex as under the sand or as disturbing as the film that first brought ozon international acclaim see the sea.

Swimming pool focuses on sarah a rigid and conservative yet successful english mystery writer. The movie is alluringly insubstantial like the light and air of the luberon. Plot summary swimming pool centers around sarah morton an uptight middle aged writer. You can t hold onto it but it lingers in your senses and plays tricks with your memory.

She relentlessly ignores her fans resents her editor john also her ex flame and hates how her writing talent has now faded into nothing.