Swimming Pool (R-Rated Version)
by François Ozon
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Actor: Charles Dance, Charlotte Rampling, Jean-Marie Lamour, Ludivine Sagnier, Marc FayolleDirector: François Ozon
Brand: NBC Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Swimming Pool (R-Rated Version)
Movie Review: Gimme more
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not going to rehash the story because 223 people have already done so. This was a beautiful easy to watch movie. It was much on the scale of "The Sixth Sense." Like...When did you catch on???? I am sorry to say I didn't until the very end and the end could have been handled a bit more smoothly. Like why on earth would the author visit her publisher and show him her book published by another publisher? Especially when he was not at all at fault. Or was he? Bearing her breasts out the window and offering to bonk the dwarf gardener should have alerted me as well as the mad cap burial scene beforehand. Ludivine is oh so French and quite perfectly beautiful. (How come American women on Sex and the City don't look at all like her?) At one time Charlotte was a bit of a sex goddess herself. I really enjoyed her personification of an up tight English mystery writer vis-a-vis Miss Marple. The leather slippers, the yogurt, her reading glasses on a chain around her neck. The tightening of the lips. The tea. it was all choice and I'd love to see part two. I wish. P.S. Oh Gosh: I now realize that the ending with Sara's ludicrous confrontation with her editor is also a figment of her fusty writer-of-quaint-English-mysteries' imagination.
Summary of Swimming Pool (R-Rated Version)
Dive into a mind-bending thriller that's soaked with raw sensuality! A murder-mystery author's search for inspiration takes a wicked turn when she meets a sexy and provocative young woman with an explosive past, in the movie Interview calls "A thrilling film! Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier sizzle!" Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour Directed by: Francois OzonIn terms of alluring female nudity, Swimming Pool shows a lot, but it's what remains concealed that gives this erotic thriller a potent, voyeuristic charge. With his Hitchcockian handling of secrets and lies, prolific French director François Ozon reunites with his Under the Sand star, Charlotte Rampling, to tell a seductive tale of murder and complicity, beginning when British mystery novelist Sarah Morton (Rampling) seeks peace and relaxation at her publisher's French villa, only to find his brash, sexually liberated daughter Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) arriving shortly thereafter to disrupt her solitary reverie. What begins as mutual annoyance turns into something more sinister and duplicitous, alternating between Julie's predatory sex with men and Sarah's observant, perhaps jealous fascination. These two women, generations apart, share in Ozon's delicate dance of trust, curiosity, and gradual understanding, until a twist ending that forces you to reevaluate everything you've seen. Only then will the mysteries of Swimming Pool be fully and tantalizingly revealed. (Note: The unrated version contains full-frontal nudity that's been edited from the rated version. In both versions, the overall plot is not affected.) --Jeff Shannon
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