Swimming Pool 2003

     John Bosload is a London publisher and he has been working with British mystery writer Sarah Morton.  John suggests that Sarah spend some time at his villa in France.  She’s feeling burned out and tired of London plus she needs inspiration.  Sarah travels to the South of France and she really begins to write again.  John’s daughter shows up at the villa and they are like wine and water at first but then they start to get along. 

     There are some twists in this film.  Even at the end, you are not sure what was real in the scenes and what was from the new novel?  The scenery is beautiful in this part of France.    

102 min, Crime directed by Francois Ozon with Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Lamour, Marc Fayolle, Mireille Mosse, Michel Fau, Jean-Claude Lecas, Emile Gavois-Kahn, Lauren Farrow, Sebastian Harcombe, Frances Cuka, Keith Yeates.

Note:  Imdb 6.8 out of 10, 84% critic 67% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*, Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 379 reviews, slantmagazine 2.5* out of 4*, BBC 4* out of 5* reviewer's rating and 4* out of 5* user rating, Metacritic 70 out of 100 with 37 critics 6.1 out of 10 with 21 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Luberon, Vaucluse, France and London, England, UK.  Charlotte Rampling had a sister named Sarah and she died at a young age.  There are some mistakes when Sarah is typing her novel.  She presses keys at random and sometimes several at once?  She also never presses the space bar while typing?  It must be that Charlotte doesn’t know how to type or she was not really trying to type?  There is another film with the same name from 1969.