Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

2003
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
Europe's most daring and inventive writer/director, François Ozon, reunites with his two favorite leading ladies, Charlotte Rampling (of "Under the Sand") and Ludivine Sagnier (of "8 Women") in this deliciously sophisticated and sexy mystery. (Focus Features)
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Swimming Pool

2003
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
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Rated 24 Jan 2017
74
80th
Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one.
Rated 24 Mar 2007
87
86th
The film unfolds slowly, but presents an interesting game with your mind. I liked it because it exuded the tension marvelously, and then that whole thing with the thing... man.
Rated 01 May 2007
58
34th
Nice tits. Seriously, what else do you want me to say?
Rated 26 Mar 2011
73
60th
A nice erotic fantasy (clearly French) with shades of Death In Venice. Neat music, a relaxed camera and breasts everywhere creates a great atmosphere for the surreality to take place. Ozon shows great restraint, reminiscent of Verhoeven, when dealing with nudity, whereas lesser directors usually get frustrated from having a hard-on, but they are able to dwell enough on the body to portray it as the object of desire whilst almost keeping it a natural part of the mise-en-scene.
Rated 24 Apr 2007
58
60th
This was a rewatch during my recent Ozon mini-season. I have to say that I didn’t remember much from the initial viewing. If you expect this to be a proper thriller, you will probably be disappointed, as those elements are introduced quite late. I was also a bit mixed on the ending: at first it seems fitting, but on a closer watch it seems to void key parts of the film. Regardless, it’s confidently directed and contains strong performance from Sagnier and especially Rampling.
Rated 18 Jul 2007
80
43rd
Interesting. Very European.
Rated 25 Jul 2007
20
4th
I don't think I got it.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
17th
Too much flesh and too little resolution. With this attempt to convince the audience that they've missed something at the end of the film, the movie just barely convinces me that the director was not entirely interested in showing off the pretty, young actress that played the supporting role.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
40th
Starts off slow and seductive, and ends with a great twist
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
72nd
Why, yes, I'd like you to screw with my brain
Rated 14 Aug 2007
86
59th
Terrific performances and an interesting story. Not for all tastes, but a satisfying mystery.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
30th
I see Francois Ozon as the next Almodovar. In a few years he will supply us his "all about my mother". In the meantime, this a movie is a step in the way of getting there- intresting, well acted, but with to much sex, and a story that falls apart towards the end.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
73
45th
I honestly can't remember a damn thing about this movie. Not one second of it.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
9th
Boring
Rated 26 Sep 2007
3
61st
Very, very strange. As others have said, it's also very engaging and sexy.
Rated 22 Oct 2007
75
54th
the beauty of perfectness
Rated 17 Nov 2007
70
33rd
Dreamy and hypnotic. Charlotte Rampling is still beautiful.
Rated 07 Apr 2008
60
15th
Admittedly better with the second viewing.
Rated 23 Aug 2008
50
7th
there was no plot!
Rated 15 Oct 2008
70
90th
Very interesting, leisurely "erotic" thriller and psychological study. The main character is unlikeable, but sticking with her pays off. I must honestly say that I didn't find this film very hard to understand at all, although some minor things are of course open to question. All the central "clues" are there in the open, and it behooves the viewer to pay a little attention and think about what they are watching. Ultimately reminiscent of Mulholland Drive, but straight-forward, unlike that film.
Rated 05 Dec 2008
70
58th
Beautifully shot, evocative & sexy.
Rated 25 Dec 2008
3
28th
Kind of weird. Very European. Loved the tits, though.
Rated 17 Apr 2009
2
14th
Seriously weak, trite, desperate attempt to make a great film out of the most stereo typical ingredients and cookie cutter plot twists.
Rated 20 Jul 2009
81
83rd
21 temmuz 09. 02:00am. - burakla, silivride & light 'david lynch'
Rated 20 Jul 2009
80
64th
21 temmuz 09. 02:00kusur am. - silivri, kaan iscanla & 'light' david lynch. kameranin acilari cok basarili.
Rated 30 Aug 2009
70
55th
I can't really put my finger on why I enjoyed this (it wasn't the gratuitous nudity, honest!) but all the elements come together pretty nicely.
Rated 20 Nov 2009
70
57th
Bom filme
Rated 05 Dec 2009
77
64th
I watched it too often. But Charlotte Rampling is just gorgeous here.
Rated 30 Jan 2010
86
71st
Gripping film with excellent performances. Charlotte Rampling is very, very good here.
Rated 05 Mar 2010
62
53rd
A crime story writer tried to escape familiar sourroundings to find more inspiration for her next novel. And she did. Ludivine Sagnier is staggering "daughter" by the pool but the story itself did not offer that much mystery to guess what's happening. The output was pretty dry and not well thought till the end.
Rated 22 Apr 2010
70
63rd
sexy
Rated 02 Jul 2010
75
79th
A fine twist that really caught me off guard, and an otherwise sexy thriller.
Rated 10 Sep 2010
46
61st
#00s(m)#, reviews, story.
Rated 06 Nov 2010
72
32nd
Somehow disappointing, but a film in the very tradition of the French cruel, psychological cinema.
Rated 19 Nov 2010
75
77th
Bit of a head-scratcher. For the first hour it's an enjoyable, albeit slow, character study of a cold, sexually repressed novelist (played very subtly by Rampling) and her nubile young muse. Then it gets a bit weird. I'm not sure the two sections mesh that well, but the final scene was so surprising that maybe I'd need to view the entire film again to decide whether it's immensely clever or just a cheap trick. Ozon's languid direction and the understated score helped add to the air of mystery.
Rated 17 Nov 2011
25
61st
"However elegant and feral the film appears on the surface, it's constantly betrayed by Ozon's cultural reductivism." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 22 Apr 2013
80
68th
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the end, but I liked Ozon's direction. Pretty and tense, if a little silly.
Rated 12 May 2013
45
34th
Atmospheric for a while, but, once it gets going, it becomes clear that it’s not so clever and not so interesting as the filmmakers no doubt hoped it would seem, veering off into a bit of hysteria, then settling down for a “reveal” that is quite predictable and rather dull.
Rated 20 Dec 2013
84
63rd
A sensual thriller with two engaging performers demanding our undivided attention.
Rated 17 Sep 2014
50
12th
yazar, kitap yazmak, aynı evde iki yabanci, havuz, cinayet, müstehcen, cinsellik
Rated 08 Nov 2015
50
38th
I should watch more Ozon movie
Rated 24 Mar 2018
40
10th
Just bad. Boring, bland and inane, while trying to convey a sense of mystery. The only part that is interesting is the very last 5 minutes, so we get a ridiculously low interesting/boring ratio.
Rated 31 Dec 2019
80
17th
Yavaş, ama ozon, severiz.
Rated 12 Jul 2020
70
57th
hisler, güdüler ve hayal gücünün birleştiği tuhaf bir düşünme hali gibi işliyor film. en az kendisi kadar gösterişçi ve çıplak övgü ya da yergi arzuladığını görmek değil, bunun bu kadar *dürüstçe* yapılması daha da ilgi çekici hale getiriyor ister istemez. elbette bu tarz gizemle erotizmin birbirine karıştığı hikayeler formül üzerinden işliyor genelde ama swimming pool formülü mekanik bir işleyişin ötesine taşıyabiliyor.
Rated 16 Nov 2020
83
80th
I was not familiar with Francois Ozon's previous work but i red that he has done movies with different genres. Swimming Pool was very impressing. Its so well written, filmed and acted, that i couldn't get my eyes off the screen.
Rated 31 Jan 2024
63
65th
okay movie

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