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Swimming Pool
Charlotte Rampling's emotionally repressed misdemeanour writer and publisher Charles Dance's nonchalant daughter, Ludivine Sagnier, encounter each other in France when Rampling takes a working break to move further education in behalf of her next book in this teasingly ambiguous mull over of creative angst and procreant distress. Commandant François Ozon continues to nose about into the life-force of the unguarded, while Yorick Le Saux's cinematography is key to establishing the set between the dismal frustration of London and the scorching temptation of the southern French sanctuary of Luberon. This in turn serves to reinforce the differences between the two women. But it's the talent with which Ozon and his stars observe clashing attitudes and universal urges ...
Swimming Pool
Teasing mystery about a novelist's transformation of actuality into fiction.
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