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 |