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Summary: Mysteriously Erotic
Review: "Swimming Pool", starring Charlotte Rampling, is a great erotic thriller. It combined crime, mystery, and passion brilliantly. Certain elements keep audiences guessing what mysterious event will happen. The moment Sarah enters her publisher's house, then days later discovering his daughter Julie, the suspense remains intensely beautiful. She was hoping for peace and quiet so she can work on her next novel, but what she starts hating turns to mysterious curiousity and lust. As secrets become revealed one by one, the rage and the friendship build, making the plot more interesting everytime. Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier are great in their Cesar nominated roles (French equivalent to the Oscar) for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Rampling offers her own sense of unhappiness and mystery to this film, offering more depth. Sagnier offers the sense of sexual erotica brilliantly. She proves that she will continue evolving as a terrific actress. "Swimming Pool" is great for those looking for something unique. It will surely please many audiences. Those interested in this should watch the unrated version rather than the R-rated. The unrated offers more sexual risque themes, though without it changes the theme only a little bit.
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Summary: The movie was a cheat
Review: Much of the discussion of this movie reduces to differences of enjoyment among people. Some like a walk in a park. Others perfer a roller coaster ride. Although neither is "better" than the other, I'll have to say that this film was not unlike "crawling through a park."
Worse, though, it was a "cheat." I could write a 1-line movie script ("Mary woke up one morning, looked into her mirror, and did not recognize herself.") All manner of discussion could spawn from that "script"--but that does not make it good.
I suppose the point of this movie was that the English Author created a fictional version of the Publisher's Daughter by writing her as a sexy and disturbed woman--and that is the person we saw througout the movie until the end. There we see the real daughter. Or, if you want to torture yourself, you could take the Daughter at face value and that the plainer, non-sexy daughter is the way she is seen by her father.
But does any of that make for good movie writing? To me, the writer provided a few dots and left it up to the audience to either be bored by it or connect the dots into a movie that they could like. In my opinion, that is extremely lazy movie-making--which is why I call this one a cheat.
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Summary: Too much sensuality and nudity!! (poor)
Review: This film has no major plot line or story theme except major frontal nudity and the main character (Julie) frequently having sex and loudly moaning with many different men....boooring!! I thought it was a pornographic English movie that tries to satisfy people's sinful fetishes. Also I was really turned off by the characters constantly smoking cigarettes throughout the film. I mean come on, this isn't the 1960's when smoking is considered sexy!! Don't we all know that smoking can KILL you and makes your breath stink? Anyway don't waste your hard earned money on this piece of garbage!
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Summary: Ready for a dip in the pool ?
Review: SWIMMING POOL shows that you dont need big stars with big paychecks & also shows that you dont need a mega million dollar budget to produce a good movie.About 75% of this movie is set in or around a SWIMMING POOL, in France, as writer SARAH MORTON (played by Charlotte Rampling) escapes to this beautiful house in France of her publisher so she can try to fight writers block and write her next murder mystery. Little did she know that she perhaps could be part of the next story she writes. Sarah shares the house with a young sexy wild and free woman played by Ludivine Sagnier. I dont want to give away a lot but with any movie that involves a swimming pool and a woman with a gorgeous body, you can expect nudity and sex and there is plenty of both in this movie but it is done in a tasteful way that it doesnt take away from the plot. The nudity and sex also help define the characters and their viewpoints and beliefs. At first the two woman dont seem to care for each other much but yet find themselves unable to stay away from spying on each others every move. The ending is filled with suspense and twists that will have you wondering if you understood the movie or if you need to go back and see it again. You might as well watch it again and dont forget to watch the deleted scenes which also help tell the story.
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Summary: How do you say "Booorrring..." in French?
Review: Murder, nudity, sex, France: you'd think this would be an exciting recipe for a film. So why did I keep looking at my watch?
If you want to see a sexy French film, or even just a good French film, go get Agnès Merlet's "Artemesia".
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Summary: Did I see a different movie???
Review: Many have commented on the sensuality and nudity in this movie. Yes, that is there, but there is so much more to this movie. I think it is a great exploration of the mind and imagination of a writer. I do not want to give too much away. However, watch the movie a second time after you have seen the the ending. Great movie!!!
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Summary: Forgettable
Review: This film did little for me. It looked nice (France). Charlotte Rampling is still a pleasure to watch (fully nude here, but pointlessly, so it made me feel ashamed for her that she had to do this for the role, as it wasn't an integral plot point and could easily have been done without [far more classy too]). The French actress (Ludivine Sagnier) is good (she's also Tinkerbell in Peter Pan [2003] and one of the daughters in the film 8 Women (...)Lots of female nudity, nice scenery, but my sense was the story ran out of gas and it went from being one film to shifting gears into something else just so it could wrap up. In the end, I have no desire to see this again. It was okay, but it didn't make much impression on me. You could easily miss this and never really miss anything.
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Summary: Thoughtful, provocative...
Review: ...but not erotic, I don't think. Some people think a beautiful naked woman is always "erotic". No, sometimes it's just scenery.
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Summary: Just plain messed up...
Review: ... but it works oh so well. Photographed exceptionally. Paced superbly. The ending wills tay with you for days. Not much on the DVD besides an interview with the star, but it's well worth the buy.
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Summary: a hypnotic movie
Review: I have a hard time understanding how this movie could get a bad review. This movie was completely brilliant! I loved all of the symbolism and clues that were scattered throughout the movie. I love how the end of the movie effects everything you have seen so far. This is a movie that requires some thinking, as all of the plot is not presented to you in an orderly fashion. If you don't like movies that are considered "artsy" you will not like this movie. I thorougly enjoyed this movie.
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