Swimming Pool (Film)

• Charlotte Rampling: Sarah Morton
• Ludivine Sagnier: Julie
• Charles Dance: John Bosload
• Jean -Marie Lamour Franck
• Marc Fayolle: Marcel
• Mireille Mossé: Marcel's daughter

Swimming pool is a film by François Ozon, in 2002 in the Luberon ( south of France ) and was shot in the UK and first shown at the film festival in Cannes 2003. The two female roles are occupied with Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier.

Action

Sarah Morton is a writer in England, writes thrillers and is not very satisfied with their lives. They gratefully acknowledge the invitation of her publisher and friend to to drive to his secluded villa in France to write there alone in her new novel.

Surprisingly, meets on the second day a young wife Julie. Sarah is outraged because they had hoped to find peace. Julie poses as daughter of Sarah's publisher.

Sarah has been a sudden change of heart. Rather than complain in a stiff manner only about Julie, she is at once very interested in their lives and their parental relationships. She writes this down also and the plot begins to thicken, when Julie gets to read the text. Julie also mentioned once that people who stand in her way, this is very repentant.

Julie runs every night with another man in the apartment. The waiter Franck, who has Sarah always served in the morning, is also taken on an evening of Julie. It does not run quite as Julie imagines, because Franck is more interested in Sarah and I will later go home early. Julie finally kills him with a stone.

Sarah immediately suspected that it could be something happened. She finds Julie crying on her bed. In this scene, Julie is because of the shock sure Sarah was her mother, and thanks sobbing that she has come back. Julie gets up again and can not seem to remember.

Sarah and Julie bury the corpse together. The caretakers Marcel is surprised at the grave in the garden, but he is distracted by Sarah.

Back in London, Sarah has completed the book with the help of Julie's. Your publisher does not want to accept but. Sarah has already anticipated and published it in a foreign publishing house, which she surprised her publisher. When you leave the premises you meet a girl, the daughter of the publisher, not Julie (French ), but the younger Julia (English), apparently the daughter from his current marriage. It remains unclear in the end whether there are now two daughters or Julie from France existed all the time only in the imagination of Sarah, inspired by Julia.

Criticism

" A fabulierfreudiges, excellently played, as well as stimulating as delicate ersonnenes game of deception to creative design that revolves zirzensisch insightful and profound existential questions, existence claims and life needs, fears and tackle them. "

Information

The director has said in an interview (taz 14 August 2003 ) about his film: " From a certain point in the movie you do not know whether you are currently in film, book, Sarah writes, or in the imagination of Sarah Morton is. "

The movie is not a remake of The Swimming Pool starring Romy Schneider; Director ozone has by his own admission only after his rotary saw this movie for the first time.