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A sensual thriller with two engaging performers demanding our undivided attention.
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Ozon simultaneously manages to make his film lazily sexual and crisply suspenseful. Aug 8, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
Ozon simultaneously manages to make his film lazily sexual and crisply suspenseful.
Jay Boyar
Two parts psychological thriller and one part pretentious French art-house head-scratcher that leaves you mumbling, 'Duh.' Aug 6, 2003 | Full Review…
Two parts psychological thriller and one part pretentious French art-house head-scratcher that leaves you mumbling, 'Duh.'
Rex Reed
Swimming Pool offers something few other movies this summer can match: A dreamy, intoxicating sensuality. Jul 21, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4
Swimming Pool offers something few other movies this summer can match: A dreamy, intoxicating sensuality.
Rene Rodriguez
The story occasionally wanders, but Swimming Pool is definitely worth a dip. Jul 19, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
The story occasionally wanders, but Swimming Pool is definitely worth a dip.
Bill Muller
A delectable and daring psychological drama. Jul 16, 2003 | Rating: A-
A delectable and daring psychological drama.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Think of it as a box of chocolates, with Sagnier being the chocolate-covered cherry. And you know the problem with chocolates: They're great to eat but they offer no nourishment whatsoever, and afterwards you feel guilty for the indulgence. Jul 11, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Think of it as a box of chocolates, with Sagnier being the chocolate-covered cherry. And you know the problem with chocolates: They're great to eat but they offer no nourishment whatsoever, and afterwards you feel guilty for the indulgence.
Peter Howell
Confusing thriller is absolutely NOT for kids. Jan 2, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Confusing thriller is absolutely NOT for kids.
Sarah Wenk
This is a very well directed with a good story, great characters, and involving engrossing performances from Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
This is a very well directed with a good story, great characters, and involving engrossing performances from Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Rampling and Ozon clearly enjoy working together. Rampling relishes psychologically complex roles. Ozon respects his leading ladies enough to give them challenges. Sep 7, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Rampling and Ozon clearly enjoy working together. Rampling relishes psychologically complex roles. Ozon respects his leading ladies enough to give them challenges.
Jeffrey Overstreet
Charlotte Rampling is engaging in this intriguing little whodunit that seems more intent on exposing internal paranoia than it does on real world murder. Aug 8, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Charlotte Rampling is engaging in this intriguing little whodunit that seems more intent on exposing internal paranoia than it does on real world murder.
Wesley Lovell
... sensual and enigmatic Jan 29, 2005 | Rating: A
... sensual and enigmatic
Philip Martin
Tiene que ver con eso de la ficción y de ser espectadores, y hasta qué punto creemos lo que se ve en la pantalla como una realidad y no como el antojo de un director de cine. Oct 26, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Tiene que ver con eso de la ficción y de ser espectadores, y hasta qué punto creemos lo que se ve en la pantalla como una realidad y no como el antojo de un director de cine.
Enrique Buchichio
An absorbing and highly stimulating film that intriguingly dissolves the barrier that separates reality and fiction to tell a strange story about that point of an artist's creative process when she has to search inside herself to reach that sparkle of inspiration that eludes her.
Super Reviewer
An author vacations at her publisher's French summer home and meets his daughter, a brazenly promiscuous young woman who becomes the subject of her new novel. Ludivine Sagnier sizzles every moment she's on screen, but Charlotte Rampling, who always seems to be troubled by some hidden existential quandary, fizzles. The story is far from interesting, and it's only Sagnier's allure that keeps our attention on the film's characters: after all, when we boil this story down, it's merely about a woman briefly seduced by youth. The end. The third act is mostly senseless, and the final reveal is "senseless-er." Overall, maybe it's only Sagnier's eyes and body and charm and eroticism that kept me interested in the film, but that's good enough for two stars.
A stylish but ultimately somewhat disappointing exercise in writing, insanity, and the strain two very different people encounter living in the same vacation home. Think "The Odd Couple", only darker, nuder, and much more slower-paced, the film's overall style and masterful performances really help make somewhat mundane material watchable. Rampling is especially impressive as a writer trying to find inspiration for a new story, and maybe finding that in the town whore (Ludivine Sagnier), who just happens to be her publisher's daughter living with her for the time being. The ending does have a twist to it, although it is not as creative and mind-boggling as it thinks it is (I had two theories as to how it was end, one of them was right). Still, director Francois Ozon's feel for the camera and space is irrefutably remarkable, and the only thing that keeps this thing from being watchable is a near third-act collapse and a finale that is predictable. Still, not a bad film at all, probably worth watching if you are a French-art film fan.
"On the surface, all is calm." 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.
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