Swimming Pool

Pros: Maybe the French countryside, that can be found in a good photo book of Provence.
Cons: The whole wretched film. Bad acting, plot and resolution to this one.

Despite the blaring ad, and the not-so-subtle teasers, this was a film that tried awfully hard to be something that it simply wasn't. Mystery author Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) is fighting writer's block. To help her get over it, her publisher, ...

Pros: Great performances by the two leads, beautiful cinematography, intrigue and mystery
Cons: Pacing at times

Ok, so I was bored one day and flipping through the endless channels of cable and came across this movie on Starz. I had never heard of it, nor the people who act in it. Since it is foreign film with direction from Francois Ozon, it sure did not get a ...

Pros: Ozon's Direction, Colorful Cinematography, & the Performances of Sagnier & Rampling.
Cons: A Somewhat Disappointing Ending that Really Comes Out in a Blur.

For many foreign filmmakers, the transition from having success on films from their native land to Hollywood is very hard. While recently, filmmakers like Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu have made the successful transitions with American ...

Pros: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Director Franscois Ozon, a maddeningly off-hand, clever scenario.
Cons: Crucial details added casually; viewers may feel there were too many or not enough.

Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. I am your hostess, Sara Morton, for Skye Channel's Master Petits Pois Anglo-French Mystery Theater, brought to you by Robins-eye Frozen Foods, Ltd. Tonight, we have a real treat, a sweet and savoury tale of unreq ...

Pros: Flawless, expressive acting, visual feast of beauty, mindblowing plot
Cons: conless!

I am still fresh from seeing this movie, and may I add, still reeling from it's effects, like too ma ...

Pros: Nice shots of pool; glimpses of the Luberon region.
Cons: Sophomoric acting, gratuitous nudity, sex, story - in short, a gratuitous movie!

Of the few films I’ve seen by French director François Ozon, it has been more miss than hit with me so far. I was intrigued by ‘Under the Sand/Sous le sable’ (2002), the stark yet strangely moving portrayal of a middle-aged woman who finally comes to ...

Pros: A well-controlled, intelligent, nothing-is-as-it-seems quasi-mystery with faultless performances
Cons: Film is quite involved. Bears most of the trademarks of the New French Extremity movement

Sarah Morton is troubled. Biting her nails and looking sour on the London Underground, she's sick of murders and writing crime stories and everything else that being a successful author entails. She balks at being recognized by a commuter. She complains ...

Pros: Lovely scenery shots and nudity
Cons: Silence on film. Gratuitous nudity. Confusing ending.

I try to consider myself artsy, in viewing different films that come to our independent film theaters here in the middle of our cornfields of Iowa. So, when I was searching for a unique film to see, the description in our local paper of Swimming Pool soun ...

Pros: Sexy, mysterious, character driven story; the timeless Charlotte Rampling and fiery Ludivine Sagnier
Cons: Film's third act revelations may prove disappointing

Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) desperately needs a change of scenery. The middle-aged, British au ...

Pros: None really. Maybe the scenery is pretty.
Cons: Everything else. So basically everything.

A few people told me that the movie "Swimming Pool" is really good and that I would like it, so I bought it to see what all the fuss was about. But watching it didn't help...I still don't know what all the fuss is about. I was bored throughout the whole ...

Pros: Rampling.
Cons: Story, script, Sagnier, plot...

If audiences weren't told that Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool was a thriller beforehand, its critical ratings would probably be vastly different from today. The *ominous* pianoed and stringed soundtrack might sound more like quirky drama music. ...

Pros: Great acting, symbolism, plot twist
Cons: Too slow. Puzzling ending. Under Developed character of Julie

Swimming Pool is a slow burn English French suspense thriller by french director Francois Ozon. You'll have to throw your American/Hollywood conceptions about "thrillers" out the window, this one is very slow, building and nuanced without a lot of ...

Pros: Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier; scenery (France is wonderful.)
Cons: story, lack of understanding, purpose

On the surface it would seem this film would not be a thriller. It is labeled a "thriller" although, really, this film can fall into many categories. It's very interesting, presently concepts that are brilliant and questions that will have you thinking ...

Pros: Good European erotic stuff and nudity; great filmic symbolism. The actings pretty good.
Cons: Not a satisfying "thriller" and not a clear plot resolution.

I checked out SWIMMING POOL because the clerk at Blockbuster recommended it. "A great thriller," she said. Well, it's not bad, but it's not a Hollywood thriller. I thought the new generation of directors would abstain from taking a stab at making a ...

Pros: Frustrating
Cons: Challenging

Recently there have been several films dealing with the concept of a person not being who they appear to be. High Tension, Fight Club and The Machinist are a few made in recent years. There have also been a several films made over the last century and ...