Swimming Pool Reviews

Swimming Pool Review
by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 2.5/4)
Directed by François Ozon. Screenplay by Ozon and Emmanuèle Bernheim. Starring Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance. Running time: 103 minutes. Rated AA for violent scenes by the MFCB. Reviewed on November 10th, 2003. more

Swimming Pool Review
by Andrew Staker
The ever-elegant Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a successful serial crime novelist in search of inspiration. Her boss suggests this might best be achieved in a stay at his holiday home in sunny France. Finally persuaded, she catches the train...more

Swimming Pool Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 8/10)
PLOT: A frumpy, old British novelist, famous for writing a series of popular mystery books, is no longer inspired by her own ideas and decides to take her publisher up on his offer for down-time in his gorgeous French villa. Once there, the woman falls...more

Swimming Pool Review
by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10)
CAPSULE: An Agatha-Christie-like mystery writer accepts an invitation to spend time at her publisher's villa in France. She did not expect that she is to meet the publisher's sensual and over-sexed daughter and she is to be...more

Swimming Pool Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10)
Susan Granger's review of "Swimming Pool" (Focus Features) French filmmaker Francois Ozon's first predominantly English film sizzles with intrigue. The seductive story begins as a British publisher (Charles Dance) offers a discontented,...more

Swimming Pool Review
by Jonathan F. Richards
The director is Francois Ozon, who made the somewhat more successful "Under the Sand" couple of years ago. That one was about a woman (Charlotte Rampling) who, when her husband dies, can't bring herself to accept the fact, living instead in a state...more

Swimming Pool Review
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 2/4)
It stars Charlotte Rampling, who's fine therein, and is directed by François Ozon, who's usually fine, but this is the French director's first English language film and I suspect something got lost in the translation. more

Swimming Pool Review
by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 3.5/4)
In a summer season glutted with terminators, pirates, comic-book adaptations and fluffy chicks with kung-fu capabilities, it is always a welcome respite to see something truly unique. "Swimming Pool" is not an original film per se but its dreamlike power...more

Swimming Pool Review
by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10)
François Ozon was once considered the enfant terrible of French cinema. Then he made the critically praised and very adult Under the Sand, and followed it up with last year's musical murder-mystery 8 Women. In his latest, Swimming Pool, Ozon has finally...more

Swimming Pool Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B+)
English crime series novelist Sarah Morton's (Charlotte Rampling, "Under the Sand") publisher John Bosload (Charles Dance, "Gosford Park") senses artistic discontent in his bestselling author, so offers her the use of his country home in the south...more

Swimming Pool Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2.5/4)
The story of Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling), a bored British crime novelist, the movie takes place mainly at the French home of her British editor, John Bosload (Charles Dance). John, who is too busy to join Sarah, offers her the loan of his vacation...more
Swimming Pool Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B+)
Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten Grade: B+ Focus Features Directed by: Francois Ozon Written by: Francois Ozon, Emmanuele Bernheim Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour, Mireille Mosse Screened at:...more