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 |  6.7/10 Votes: 42,819 |
 | 83% |
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 | 6.4 Votes: 427 Popularity: 8.417 |
Reviews:
Alluring and Deceptive, Beautifully Spare, Sometimes Slow
Swimming Pool (2003)All I had heard before recently viewing Francois Ozon’s Swimming Pool is that the lead actress, Ludivine Sagnier, was searingly sexy. Well, if that’s what you want in a movie, you might agree. But it lowered my expectations, nearly to the point of not watching it. In the end, Sagnier’s character is mostly coy and bratty, and her nudity, in France around her own very private swimming pool, shouldn’t really be an issue– except maybe for the viewer. For me, there was sometimes a mismatch in my head between watching the actress and watching the character, and if this is a flaw in some movies, here, in some basic way, it ties into the intention.
This is an odd starting point, for sure, but it is Sagnier’s brazen outwardness that makes the more complex role played by Charlotte Rampling take on interest. How else to portray the theme of a woman who uses her body and her confidence to seduce the other characters in front of an older woman who wishes she could do the same? Swimming Pool really isn’t about sex, but it absolutely is about the appearances that lead to sex–of being sexy, to put it a little stupidly–and Rampling increasingly takes on the role of viewer within her own character, and she ends up as perplexed as we do. All to good effect.
The minimal plot is about the failure by a successful novelist to see alluring from allusion, fact from fantasy. It’s about storytelling, fiction, and ultimately fear of failure. The reconstruction of the past becomes the inner confusion in the mind of the main character, a charming and effective Rampling playing a novelist who was once, by all the hints, the very seductress suggested by the younger woman.
This is certainly a film worth watching. For some it will seem willfully confusing to the point of manipulation–the viewer is fooled and taken for a ride, and it feels confusing for the sake of confusion. For others it will seem endlessly mysterious and clever, even if requiring a kind of blindness to certain narrative conflicts (which may or may not be logically resolved by the end–I watched parts a second time to check). Right from the start there is an ingenious mismatch of facts that you start to brush off, and when things develop in ways I don’t dare suggest for fear of ruining it, these clues grow in meaning. It will certainly be great for discussion, heated or not, and that’s a sign (for me) of a good experience, though not necessarily a superior movie.
It is notable how economical the filming is–the setting is limited, the characters few, the range of situations reasonable and not requiring trickery or effects. And it comes down to Rampling, above all, holding the psychology together. It shows how little you need to take a good plot idea and flesh it out, sexist voyeurism or not.
Review By: secondtake Rating: 7 Date: 2009-07-18
Loved this…
I don’t know what it is about Charlotte Rampling, I could watch her act all day… I loved how beautiful this movie was… great performances. Very Hitchcockian
Review By: grassg23 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-03-14
Other Information:
Original Title Swimming Pool
Release Date 2003-05-21
Release Year 2003
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 7800000
Revenue 22441323
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director François Ozon
Writer François Ozon (screenplay), Emmanuèle Bernheim, Sionann O’Neill (translation: English)
Actors Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Jean-Marie Lamour
Country France, UK
Awards 2 wins & 19 nominations.
Production Company Le Studio Canal +, France 2 Cinema
Website N/A
Technical Information:
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 2,812 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm
Original title Swimming Pool
TMDb Rating 6.4 427 votes
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