Swimming Pool | | Cast : | Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance | | Director : | François Ozon | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | January 13, 2004 | | Language : | French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Sex and a swimming pool | Content
 | If your are looking to find an "erotic thriller" you might be disappointed with this movie. There is more mystery than suspense in Ozon's latest effort, as he explores misplaced identities in the French country side. Charlotte Rampling is Sarah, a writer looking to get over her block. Her editor gives her the keys to his chateau in order to have some valuable quiet time. Her idyllic retreat is soon shattered by Julie, a nubile waif who Sarah assumes to be the daughter of the editor. Julie is soon parading her men in front of Sarah, forcing an uneasy relationship between the two. In turn, the dour writer is compelled to rediscover her long dormant sexuality in a way one sees only in French movies, with an erotic tension developing over a handsome waiter at the local restaurant. The movie is well done, but there is surprisingly little suspense in it, making me wonder what the fuss was all about, other than a perky Ludivine Sagnier. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 26, 2005 | | Summary | Junk | Content
| A British mystery writer is scribbling her latest pot-boiler while sharing a house in France with a blonde vixen. They get up to mischief, sex, and murder. But is it real?
This movie is not as bad as watching grass grow, but only because of the blonde vixen. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 08, 2005 | | Summary | Not an American style movie. | Content
| Its pace is very leisurely, you might say slow, for the short attention span of most American movie goers. Very little action until, BAM, the grisly murder. Sarah is a sucessful, detective/murder novelist. She is sent by her publisher for a little R&R, to his French villa complete with swiming pool & blissful quiet. His young daughter Julie, arrives inexpectedly, with noisey sex every night with a differnt man. As first, this disturbs Sarah but, she is also curious & a little jealous. After initially clashing on this & other issues, they develop an understanding & sister-like affection for each other. Sarah is interested in Julie's life & Julie is interested in what Sarah is writing. A murder occurs & Sarah springs into action putting to use all the expertise she has developed in writing detective novels.
The tone is reminiscent of Hitchcock so you have to pay attention, with patience, for the payoff. The nudity is tasteful, & does not detract from but is an intregal part of this very enjoyable movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 10, 2005 | | Summary | Sexy but Strange | Content
| We watched this movie and it held our interest all the way through, although
I will say that it is very artsy and european and had a lot of charachter stuff
with not that much plot. For a long time you have no idea where it's even going
because there's not too much happening.
It picks up quite a bit as soon as the sexy young blonde girl enters the picture,
and she is soon very topless and showing her gorgeous young supple boosom
all over the place -- which is the very best part of the picture. There are some
provocative sex scenes too, but overall, the tone is strange.
It was a sexy movie, and it did provide a good warmup for some hot activities
later on the living room floor, where we got to put the techniques from the
NEW SEX NOW dvd to good use. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 24, 2005 | | Summary | Never get in the claws of a detective-story writer | Content
| An English unmarried woman who writes detective stories is suspiscious from the very start. There is an Agatha Christiean unprofessional detective dilettante in every single English woman who has reached a rather mature and ripe age. Here the lady is trapped between her old semi-dependent father and her domineering and definitely taste-lacking publisher, and she finds an escape in her publisher's French summer home where she meets a young girl who is going to provide her with the opportunity to be what she has been chasing all her life through her detective stories, a criminal, or at least a master mind for the cover-up of a crime. She cannot find any pleasure in some kind of sexual or emotional adventure, but she can find a lot of pleasure in being what she has imagined herself to be all her life : a criminal evading the police. All it takes is a few square yards of peaceful water in a garden, what we call a swimming pool in plain language. This swimming pool is going to attract victims like honey attracts flies and bees, or even foxes and bears. And she is not going to do all that for the only pleasure of doing it, but for the far more satisfying pleasure of turning the experience into a novel that will be discarded by her publisher who is a literary redneck and the infinitely more pleasurable experience of having this discarded novel published by a competitor. Publishers hate competitors by definition, profession and conviction. That's how real life for one who has some imagination can become the subject and the raw material that person is going to turn into a virtual reality that will feel even more real than the real reality we can find in the world and taste or see if we have sensitive eyes or a delicate tongue. Brilliantly decadent in a way.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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