Swimming Pool Movie Review Nytimes
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 review nytimes. You don t know what that means but you know exactly what it means. The water is cool and fresh and the day is beautiful. The movie is alluringly insubstantial like the light and air of the luberon. As manifested by countless swimming pool shots and much attention to grandiose architecture.
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. The swimmer is the story of a man who begins at the dawn of a new day to swim in the backyard pool of some friends. She played boldly sexual roles early in her career as in. You can t hold onto it but it lingers in your senses and plays tricks with your memory.
Rampling has always had the aura of a woman who knows things you would like to do that you haven t even thought of. 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. However the arrival of julie who claims to be the publisher s daughter induces. We ve picked the best gear you need for a great outdoor movie night.
The new york times archives. Reviews for the real world. And occasionally used as a diy 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. 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.