Swimming Pool Movie Spoiler
Massive spoiler of course given the title of this thread you shouldn t be here unless you seen it or don t care about spoilers.
Swimming pool movie spoiler. 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. I just saw the film swimming pool and was disappointed at the ending. 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. She relentlessly ignores her fans resents her editor john also her ex flame and hates how her writing talent has now faded into nothing.
The ending quite surprised me and i had to think about it. Although quite popular her editor john only perceives her as his old cash cow while he shifts his focus onto new crime. The movie was really too slow for me for the first 70 mintues however and i kept wondering what is the point of painting us a pictures of this dour and unhappy author s interactions with a lustful irresponsible bratty young woman. Swimming pool contained good symbolism acting and especially great cinematography.
See the movie yourself then you be the judge. 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. 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. If you want to encounter the swimming pool without my reading of it clouding your mind then go no further.
Ending of the movie swimming pool spoiler i just saw the film swimming pool and was disappointed at the ending. I am going to talk about what appears to happen and what i think really happens in this film. Swimming pool centers around sarah morton an uptight middle aged writer. This is your spoiler warning.
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. For example if the ending means that all the events in france were just imagined by the. 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 focuses on sarah a rigid and conservative yet successful english mystery writer.
I love watching movies with a european villa setting because i ve spent a little time in places like that in italy and spain among other countries. I am not sure what it is supposed to mean.