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Swimming Pool

2003

François Ozon

Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle ...

6.3

5,884

Mystery. Drama Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a prim and proper British author who has written a successful series of mystery-crime novels. However, when she visits her London publisher (Charles Dance) in a dour mood, wearing a depressive pout, and complains that she's no longer his favorite, he invites her to use his vacation home in the south of France as a tranquil escape to try her hand at writing something different. Once there, Sarah ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Ozon] understands as Hitchcock did the small steps by which a wrong decision grows in its wrongness into a terrifying paranoid nightmare (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Rob Mackie The Guardian	"A two-hander with a nice mix of hostility and complicity (...) [It] gives you an enigmatic ending to discuss (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"As the story takes shape, Mr. Ozon, Ms. Rampling and Ms. Sagnier complicate it in subtle and fascinating ways (...) The movie is alluringly insubstantial"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"[Ozon] again proves himself a master of building shocking moments from a series of seemingly insignificant gestures and throwaway lines, and unsettling mysteries from everyday ambiguities"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Unfortunately, after the well-honed psychological melodrama of its first half, this wanders off into the metaphysical territory of Ingmar Bergman's 'Persona' (a much better film)"
		Neil Smith BBC	"Still waters run deep in this compelling psychological melodrama (...) Rampling and Sagnier are well-matched as social opposites turned wary allies (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Rooney Variety	"A sophisticated, unpredictable mystery (...) A strange, seductive reflection on the creative process (...) The drama also functions as a study in opposites"

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